 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...  Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients - Page 264by Francis Bacon - 1884 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pages
...spirit. In illustration of these remarks, we shall quote the first part of bis essay on " Studies." Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge, of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling... | |
 | 1855 - 396 pages
...sufficient to excuse them, if they go out of their way in a well-beaten track. JOHN LOCKE. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...objects that surround it.— W. Danby. 105. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring;...disposition of business, for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...objects that surround it. W. Danby. 105. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring;...disposition of business, for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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....disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and '.he plots and marshalling... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...public proceedings. 1 To have little effect. 2 To this extent. a Of the information. L.-OF STUDIES.1 STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...Therefore mark my counsel .... or both yourself and mo Cry, lost.' — Shake«pere. ESSAY L. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatcness1 and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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....disposition of business; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling... | |
 | British and foreign school society - 1857 - 548 pages
...deviate from the original. I. ON STUDY. " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
....... or both yourself and me Cry, lost' — Shakespere. /" , . ,A 2_ . .<.,. v ESSAY L. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness1 and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
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