 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...  Essays moral, economical and political - Page 176by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...are hut a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for...; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of paiticulars one by one : but the general counsels, and tihe plots and marshalling of affairs, come... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ! [Studio.] Studies serve for delight, ee the pleasant rivers, and meadows, and flowers, and fountains, privatenesi and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in thejudgment and disposition... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...religious and moral duties. XV. — ON STUDY. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatenes« traction of that living intellect that bred them....they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, marshalling of affairs, come best from those Lhnt are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 pages
...desperate heart could be insensible. 15 EXERCISE VII. Studies. — BACON. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use, for...ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one 6 by one ; but the general counsels, and... | |
 | 1909 - 740 pages
...serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chiefe use, for delight, is in privatenesse and retiring ; for ornament, is in 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 them too much... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. OF STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for • ability. Their chief use for delight, is in private- J ness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...fullness and richness of thought and of style than this on the use of study. " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for...affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. L. OP STUDIES4. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and; for ability. Their chief use for...by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is... | |
 | 582 pages
...deviate from the original. I. ON STUDY. " Studies serve for delight, for oinament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend too much time in studies is... | |
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