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The Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon ... Ed., with an ... - Page 240
by Francis Bacon - 1900 - 275 pages
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with tlie use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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...
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Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta ...

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pages
...the destrnctive influence upon animal life heretofore attributed to the Upas-tree. STUDIES AND BOOKS. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....judgment and disposition of business, for expert men can exeeute and perhaps judge of business one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...for ornament, is in discourse ; 2 and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.8 For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and htarshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is...
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Advanced Reading Book: Literary and Scientific

Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...foretold, that when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find faith upon earth." OF STUDIES. — (BACON.) STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, in discourse : and for ability, in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute,...
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The popular educator, Volume 3

Popular educator - 1860 - 536 pages
...STUDIES servo for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief UM for 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 can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pages
...'Therefore mark my counsel . ... or both yourself and me Cry, lost.' — Shakespsrc. OF STUDIES. OTUDIES 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 for ability, is in the judgment and...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Treatise on Elocution, Exercises in ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...though they stop OUT course, and spend some of our time in a' fixed attention. III. STUDIES. — BACON.' STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....one ; but the general counsels, and the" plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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...
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Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selection from the Best ...

Truman Rickard - 1863 - 152 pages
...holiness to which only a desperate heart could be insensible. 1$ EXEECISE VII. Studies. — BACON. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one 6 by one; but the general counsels, and...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 13

Henry Barnard - 1863 - 904 pages
...childhood so nearly divine. LORD BACON AND ARCHBISHOP WHATELY ON STUDIES. BACON'S EMAY L. or groom. SHTDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness,1 and retiring ; for ornament, in in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and...
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