 | 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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness. and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability is...affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend toe much time in studies is sloth; to use them- too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 528 pages
...be combined together to prepare us for the latter. " Expert men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and judge of particulars one by one ; " but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshal" ling of affairs, come best from those that are learned." SECTION VIII. Continuation of... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1815 - 632 pages
...combined together to " prepare us for the latter." • Expert men,' says Lord Bacon, ' can execute and judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general ' counsels, and the plots, and the marshalling of affairs, come best 1 from those that are learned.' Admitting the truth of these... | |
 | Asia - 1817 - 678 pages
...render future editions lees open to VouIÏI. 3N 450 critical remarks. " Expert men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one...of affairs, come best from those that are learned." We are informed by the author of i the work before us. " that he has avoided treating of those subjects... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...contrivers of Suits, for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. ©f &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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...to put>h'c proceedings. rbi ' '.. . •' .:.'.:•£ 't*';?' ;..-.• L. OF STUDIES. :,.^~z:^zn ^x-: STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge 6f particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling- of affairs, come... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...in privateness and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability is in the judgement and disposition of business. For expert men can execute,...perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the genera^ counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.... | |
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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... 
