 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of, particulars one...much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by expedience... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in thejudgment and disposition of business ; for expert men or's works : — [The Age of Peatón and Dttcrction.]...fight or beget his like, for so he is contemporary wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar ; ttay perfect nature, and arc perfected by experience... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of paiticulars one by one : but the general counsels, and tihe plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those...much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience... | |
 | George Campbell - 1849 - 472 pages
...men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general councils, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned." Indeed, in almost every art, even as used by mere practitioners, there are certain rules, as hath been... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one...much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 pages
...judgment and disposition of business. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one 6 by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and...much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a 1 0 scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. r/To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men amb says justly, that the line ' seated in hearing...passage. It is indeed a noble poetical image. Fecl Lhnt are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is eloth ; to use them too much for ornament,... | |
 | 1909 - 740 pages
...discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of businesse." And soon after : — " To spend too much time in studies is sloth ;: to use...much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholler." And so on. Both writers, then, if there are two,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...general_counsels, and the plots and marshalling of afl".iirs_cpme_best from those, that_are learned. To_spend ure, mate judgment wn°J3yjby their rules, is the Jhumdur of a scholar ¡they perfect nature, and _are perfected... | |
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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. 
