 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...delight', for ornament', and for ability'. Their chief use for delight is in the quiet of private life ; for ornament', is in discourse'; and for ability',...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 2. To spend too much time in studies',... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...basis. Upon this work, which was a part of a magnificent mexecuted plan, rests his immortal fame. ' . STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...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... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1872 - 386 pages
...following extract from Lord Bacon, however excellent in other respects, is deficient in melody: — " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....by 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 sloth;... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...advantageously displays 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....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 sloth... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...PEOSE WEITERS, CHBONOLOGICALLY ABBANGED. FEANCIS BACON: 1561—1626. Of Studies.—From his "Essays." STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....judge of particulars, one by one; but the general councils, and the plots .and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend... | |
 | Otis Phillips Lord - 1872 - 46 pages
...out wherein he differed, who differed largely from his compeers, is not easy. Lord Bacon says : — " Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability....ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. * * To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ;... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...the quiet of private life ; for ornament', is in discourse' ; and for ability', is in the judgraent, and disposition of business' ; for expert men can...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 2. To spend too much time in studies',... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...he moved in the work vast, with powers so varied, that it of reforming and arranging the laws ment, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...contrivers of suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. OF STUDIES.1 Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discour je ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition2 of business. For expert men can execute,... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. OF STUDIES (1597). Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....by 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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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... 
