 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: With Annotations - Page 447by Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 550 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 414 pages
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 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...; for Ornament, is in Difcourfe ; and for Ability, is in the Judgement and Difpofition of Bufinefs. For expert Men can execute, and perhaps judge of Particulars, one by one ; but the general Counfels, and the Plots, and marfl1alling of Affairs, come beft from thofe that are learned. To fpend... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1852 - 172 pages
...perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshallings of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth : to use them too much for ornament, is affectation : to make judgment wholly by... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 pages
...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...those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...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...those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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...affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend loo much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 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 marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned." — STEWART'S 'Elements of the... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1853 - 432 pages
...the gulf between the learned and the uneducated. " 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 from those that are learned." RELATION OF ABSTRACTION TO RELIGION.... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 1272 pages
...STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatencss and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their... | |
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