 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...  A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed - Page 114by Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 889 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatcness1 and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...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 make2... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...he doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,... | |
 | British and foreign school society - 1857 - 548 pages
...deviate from the original. I. ON STUDY. " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness1 and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in -J studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. , STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plot* and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...of a bullet in the air, which flieth so swift as it outruns the eye. 3. OP STUDIES.1 (" ESSAYS," L.) Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...he doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...of a bullet in the air, which flieth so swift as it outruns the eye. 3. OF STUDIES.1 (" ESSAYS," L.) Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...he doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with tlie use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and '.he plotb and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time... | |
 | Popular educator - 1860 - 424 pages
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatenoss and retiringj for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is...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... | |
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