 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 pages
...use for delight is in privateness,1 and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ahility, is in the judgment and disposition of business; for,...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affaire, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 444 pages
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in the quiet of private life ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 2. To spend too much time in studies,... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 pages
...Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatencss and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for...can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by-one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of ¡ittnirs, come best from those that... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 392 pages
...the other, and cheerfully sacrifice the sinful pleasures of a few years to the holy joys of eternity. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots,1 and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...request to a greate man as his ire, 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...countenance ; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtues BÍiine and vices blush. ESSAY LI. pointments and regulations, which are truth. The latest...Gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it. ; fur expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels,... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 474 pages
...but only prick in some flowers of 70 that he hath learned abroad into the customs of his own country. OF STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, s and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...whereas it is now commonly employed to denote an elaborate and finished composition.] L— OK STUDIES. i. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....disposition of business. For expert * men can execute, and perNOTES. — Line I. delight, pleasure, pastime ; ornament, the adornment of conversation ; ahility,... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 pages
...own country. OF STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief iise for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament,...particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, 5 and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much... | |
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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... 
