 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...  Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients - Page 266by Francis Bacon - 1884 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...now, old Dobson, turning pale, Yields to his fate. So ends my tale. MILS. T:i ll.tl.H. 105. On Study. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is for privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ! [Studio.] would a blind man give to see 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... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...holiness to which only a desperate heart could be insensible. 15 EXERCISE VII. Studies. — BACON. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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... | |
 | 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...disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 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, perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling... | |
 | Electronic journals - 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
...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, 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...contrivers of suits; for thev are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. OF STUDIES. etimes to entertain their minds with variety and i'or delight, is in privateness and retiring ; Tor. ornainentjTs and for ability, is in t of business... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...advantageously dispkys his fullness and richness of thought and of style than this on the use of study. " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....disposition of business; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshaling of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. L. OP STUDIES4. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and; for...disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of... | |
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