 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...  Recollections of a Literary Life - Page 543by Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 558 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 pages
...cringing parasite of James. I do not know any single passage that more advantageously displays his fulness and richness of thought and of style than this on...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. OF STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend loo much time in studies is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other 1 [ Studie».] Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...contrivers of suits ; for they are but a, kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. OF STUDIES. , and one smooth entire straw at the top. They take...beard half the breadth of a finger in length. Then marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 pages
...— Oxford prize essay. Everything suffers from translation except a bishop. — Isrrd C/testerJield. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. — Lord Bucon. The language in which... | |
 | Popular educator - 1854 - 922 pages
...use for delight, is in prirateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, a in the judgment and disposition of business : for...execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; bat the general counsels, and the plots and marshaffing of affairs, come best from those that are... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 1272 pages
...30 17 Kill Bogphonu, Cape Anatoli I/ • 1 * 41 11 41 13 29 38 29 10 THE f hrafnr. VOLUME THE FIFTH 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 for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
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