 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 pages
...ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament is iri discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...almost entirely of aphorisms and detached sentences. The extracts which follow are from his Essays.] Studies. Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of par(36) ticulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs,... | |
 | London univ - 1846 - 326 pages
...Morning, 10 to 1. GREEK PROSE COMPOSITION. Examiner, Rev. Dr. JERRARD. Translate into Greek Prose : Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to... | |
 | 1846 - 838 pages
...one peaceful current until they finally and conjointly merge in the ocean of Eternity. THE USES OF STUDIES. — "Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in judgment and duposition for business." — Thoughts by Bacon. THE Journal of f^ealtf) antj AUGUST,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...virtuous' exertion', to shed through our souls', the blessedness' of heaven'. Finlavson. V. ON STUDY. Studies' serve' for delight', for ornament', and for...affairs, come' best' from those' that are learned'. To spend too' much time' in studies is sloth' ; to use' them too much for ornament', is affectation';... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...use for delight is in privatoness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, ia arc learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, Í3 in the judgment nnd [Sorcery and Witchcraft.] affair*, come best from those that nre learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. 54 55 L. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament and...of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...Study. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is for privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to... | |
 | 1848 - 398 pages
...book, out of which he is doomed to read tedious homilies to distasting schoolboys." — Charles Lamb. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and dispositions of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one... | |
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STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps... 
