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The Normal Fifth Reader - Page 337
by Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 416 pages
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; ior ornament is in discourse; and for ability is in the...by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs como best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is...
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The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference

Samuel Maunder - 1859 - 942 pages
.... i ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, la in the judgment and disposition of business, il For expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars,...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and mai'shallingof attaint, come bett from those that arc learned. 4. To upend too much time in studies...
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The Guardian, Volumes 10-11

1859 - 802 pages
...snch as strengthen the judgment and qualify men for affairs of life and business. For expert men may 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. To spend too much time in studies, is...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 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 Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 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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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 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...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...
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Advanced Reading Book: Literary and Scientific

Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, in discourse : and for ability, in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert...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 popular educator, Volume 3

Popular educator - 1860 - 536 pages
...delight, ia in privatcness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in tho judgment and disposition of business: for expert men...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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Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta ...

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 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...judgment and disposition of business, for expert men can exeeute and perhaps judge of business one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - 1861 - 416 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, is...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend too much time in studies is...
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