 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and *.he plotb and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...though they stop OUT course, and spend some of our time in a' fixed attention. III. STUDIES. — BACON.' STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the" plots and... | |
 | Truman Rickard - English language - 1863 - 152 pages
...holiness to which only a desperate heart could be insensible. 1$ EXEECISE 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 904 pages
...childhood so nearly divine. LORD BACON AND ARCHBISHOP WHATELY ON STUDIES. BACON'S EMAY L. or groom. SHTDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness,1 and retiring ; for ornament, in in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1970 - 712 pages
...words which we do well to bear in mind if we would keep our sense of proportion : "Studies," he says, "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and dispositon of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of, particulars one by one. But... | |
 | Brittany (France) - 1898 - 788 pages
...Dissertations allemandes. 1 . Das deutsche Hofepos. 3. Hat Dculschland eine XXIII Version anglaise. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in (he judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can exécute and perhaps judge of particulars,... | |
 | United States. Defense Contract Audit Agency - 1976 - 152 pages
...studies Sir Francis Bacon wrote about which "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring;...ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in judgment and disposition of business." The Defense Contract Audit Agency is a dynamic organization... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 492 pages
...serue for Delight, for Ornament, and for Ability. Their Chiefe Vse for Delight, is in Priuatenesse and Retiring; For Ornament, is in Discourse; And for Ability, is in the ludgement and Disposition of Businesse. 30 For Expert Men can Execute, and perhaps ludge of particulars,... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...other essays and much else. In 1612 the first part of the 1597 text is repeated unaltered : it runs: Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability;...ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in judgment. For expert men can execute, but learned men are fittest to judge or censure. To spend too... | |
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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. For expert men can execute, and perhaps... 
