 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...  Rhetoric and the Study of Literature - Page 55by Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - 1913 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Campbell - 1849 - 472 pages
...men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general councils, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned." Indeed, in almost every art, even as used by mere practitioners, there are certain rules, as hath been... | |
 | 1958 - 628 pages
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 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...religious and moral duties. XV. — ON STUDY. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatenes« and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those Lhnt are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is eloth ; to use them too much for ornament,... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 pages
...holiness to which only a desperate heart could be insensible. 15 EXERCISE VII. Studies. — BACON. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one 6 by one ; but the general counsels, and... | |
 | 1909 - 740 pages
...serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chiefe use, for delight, is in privatenesse and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of businesse." And soon after : — " To spend too much time in studies is sloth ;: to use them too much... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1850 - 380 pages
...pierce the array Of past events WORDSWORTH. ' Sonnets to Liberty.'] Exercise. " men can execute, and judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affaire come best from those that are learned." * " To him Nestor thus rejoined, O friend, what sorrows... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 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. Their chief use for delight, is in private- J ness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...contrivers of suits; for thev are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. OF STUDIES. etimes to entertain their minds with variety and i'or delight, is in privateness and retiring ; Tor. ornainentjTs and for ability, is in t of business... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. L. OP STUDIES4. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and; for...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... | |
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