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The Normal Fifth Reader - Page 337
by Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 416 pages
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The English instructor; or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose ...

English instructor - 1801 - 272 pages
...delight , for ornament , and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability ,...execute , and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; bui the general counsels , and the plots , and marshalling of affairs , come best from those that...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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...one ; but the general counsels , and the plots , and marshalling of affairs , come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...for delight, for ornament, asd for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is...judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels,,and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...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...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - 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...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend toe much time in studies is...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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...one : but the general counsels-, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is...
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pages
...in privatenes? and retirement; for ornament ,is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement, and disposition of business : For expert men can .execute,...particulars, one by .one ; but the general counsels, and plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. 2. To spend too much time...
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Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its ..., Volume 3

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...by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned." We are informed by the author of i...
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatenessand retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time"in Studies, is...
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