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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. "
The Essays of Lord Bacon - Page 195
by Francis Bacon - 1873 - 240 pages
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The English Instructor: Being a Collection of Pieces in Prose, Selected from ...

1830 - 288 pages
...and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and, perhaps,...much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment 2 wholly by their rules is the humour 3 of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience;...
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The Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart: With ...

Sir John Sinclair - 1831 - 618 pages
...latter, experience and speculation must be combined. " Expert men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and judge of particulars one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned •." The influence of the Crown,...
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The Academical Reader: Comprising Selections from the Most Admired Authors ...

John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 pages
...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...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 2. To spend too much tinie in studies, is sloth; to use them too much, for ornament, is affectation;...
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The Christian's Penny Magazine, Issues 1-82

1832 - 670 pages
...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...particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the ploU and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies,...
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Moral, Economical, and Political Essays

Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of paiticulars one by one : but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best fiom those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
..., one by one'; but general councils', and the plots and marshaling of affairs' , come best from the learned'.* To spend too much time in studies', is sloth*;* to use them too much for ornament',0 is affectation'; to form one's judgment wholly by their rules', is the humour'i of a scholar'....
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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...much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment only by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps ijudge taly. Livia settled all things only by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
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The Young Lady's Reader

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pages
...and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment »nd disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps...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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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pages
...retired privacy'; for ornament', in discourse'; and for ability', in the arrangement and disposition of business': for expert men can execute', and', perhaps', judge of particulars' , one by one'; but general councils', and the plots and marshalling of affairs' , come best from the learned*.* To spend...
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