 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 - Página 543de Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 558 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1836
...the sententious wisdom of the greatest 214 of modern philosophers. " Studies," says my Lord Bacon, " serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatcness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; anil for ability, is in tho judgment and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838
...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....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 - 1838 - 832 páginas
...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....business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps ijudge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs,... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 458 páginas
...are not spoiled till those of nature age are already sunk into corruption. ON STUDIES.— LORD BACOU. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment »nd disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 357 páginas
...delight', is' . . in retired privacy'; for ornament', in discourse'; and for ability', in the arrangement and disposition of business': for expert men can execute',...perhaps', judge of particulars' , one by one'; but general councils', and the plots and marshalling of affairs' , come best from the learned*.* To spend... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840
...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....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... | |
 | George Campbell - 1840
...varieties, and even to make improvements on the species. " Expert men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling affairs, come best from those that are learned." Indeed, in almost every art, even as used... | |
 | 1855
...spirit. In illustration of these remarks, we shall quote the first part of his essay on " Studies." Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come but from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...of the other ! [ S/liâtes.] Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their cljief X D>c ( ݈ } T P ^D > 04 l^ ЄD T Ē ` G n c D [ % ʢN}' w f @ ; ~ marshalling of affairs, come best from those that arc learned. To spend too much time in Studien, is... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 120 páginas
...sentences; and analyse the following essay, by Lord Bacon, into sentences, and their various parts: — Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament is iri discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute,... | |
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