 | Popular educator - 1860 - 536 pages
...delight, ia in privatcness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in tho judgment and disposition of business: for expert men...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... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...have not ; so here I rest it. ON STUDY. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness, and retiring...plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring j for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pages
...serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. ^ Their chief use for delight is in privateness,1 and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of atfairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...for her son that was dead ; and thereupon said, " Yesterday I saw a fragile thing broken, to-day 1 have seen a mortal thing die." And therefore Virgil...particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and *.he plotb and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1970 - 712 pages
...words which we do well to bear in mind if we would keep our sense of proportion : "Studies," he says, "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and dispositon of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of, particulars one by one. But... | |
 | 1898 - 788 pages
...Dissertations allemandes. 1 . Das deutsche Hofepos. 3. Hat Dculschland eine XXIII Version anglaise. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in (he judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can exécute and perhaps judge of particulars,... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...find 'For expert men can execute but learned men are fittest to judge and censure.' In 1625 we find 'For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. ' In other words, men only of practice can act upon what is counselled. But counsel which leads to... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...other essays and much else. In 1612 the first part of the 1597 text is repeated unaltered : it runs: Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability;...ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in judgment. For expert men can execute, but learned men are fittest to judge or censure. To spend too... | |
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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... 
