 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...though they stop our course, and spend some of our time in a fixed attention. III. STUDIES.— BACON.' STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for orna1 Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor ment of labor, or species of activity, of England under James... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - 458 pages
...Note — Rhet. div. of words 27 Rule 12 THE ELOCUTIONIST. PROMISCUOUS SELECTIONS IN PROSE. On Study. STUDIES' serve' for delight', for ornament', and for...ornament', is in discourse'; and for ability', is in the judgement' and disposition' of business'. For expert' men can execute', and perhaps judge' of particulars,... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 pages
...for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Or STUDIES (1597). , Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatcness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...what is unjust, in order that thou mayest obtain what is just.' 2 Lost . Ruined. OF STUDIES. OTUD1ES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. ^ Their chief use for delight is in privatenesB,' and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees. (50) XIX. OF STUDIES ? STUDIES serve for delight,2 for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness 3 and retiring, 4 for ornament, is in discourse ; 5 and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1875 - 372 pages
...following extract from Lord Bacon, however excellent in other respects, is deficient in melody : — " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse j and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business; for expert men can execute, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...request to a greate man as his tre, and yet not in an ill cause, it is so much out of his reputation. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....judgment and disposition of business. For expert men s can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough - 1876 - 222 pages
...STUDIES. — Bacon. 1. STUDIES" serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Theirq chief useff for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment1' and dispositiondd of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 pages
...are in danger ol autinnmian doctrine. LORD BACON AND ARCHBISHOP WHATELY ON STUDIES. BACON'S RSSAY L. OF STUDIES. STUDIES 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...the street.' Balance kept up ; highly idiomatic language. OP STUDIES. (From the Essays : ei 1625.) Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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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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 judgement and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps... 
