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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 judgement and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps... "
The Massachusetts Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education - Page 276
1855
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...serve for delight , for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for dilight is in pri— vateness and retiring ; for ornament , is in discourse ; and for ability , is in the judgment and ilisposition of business. For expert men can execute , and perhaps judge of particulars one by one...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 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 judgement and disposition of businesse. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 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 judgement and disposition of businesse. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...himself; he has more pride and ambition than any other sort of sinner. ESSAY 5. OF STUDIES. (Lord Bacon.) STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privacy and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse, and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 2

1818 - 506 pages
...blended with what has gone before : " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them. Reading maketh a full man,...
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...both mother and daughter to be maintained at the public expense. 'CBBS <L CHAPTER LXIX. ON STUDY 1. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatenes? and retirement; for ornament ,is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement, and...
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...contrivers of Suits, for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. İf &TUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatenessand retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 1

British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...general contrivers of suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. LI. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the jndgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps jndge of particulars,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England..: Essays ...

Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...general contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. OF STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; forornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for...
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A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].

James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...beams on him. " Studies," observes Lord Bacon, "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring;...ability is in the judgment and disposition of business." He, then, who being fully acquainted with his worldly engagements, who, by industry and skill is proceeding...
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