 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...  Philosophical works - Seite 301von Francis Bacon - 1854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry Noble Day - 1875 - 372 Seiten
...following extract from Lord Bacon, however excellent in other respects, is deficient in melody : — " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse j and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business; for expert men can execute, and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 Seiten
...STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness,1 and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 Seiten
...request to a greate man as his tre, and yet not in an ill cause, it is so much out of his reputation. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....judgment and disposition of business. For expert men s can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 Seiten
...use for delight is in privateness,1 and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ahility, is in the judgment and disposition of business; for,...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affaire, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 Seiten
...the street.' Balance kept up ; highly idiomatic language. OP STUDIES. (From the Essays : ei 1625.) Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in tho judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 444 Seiten
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in the quiet of private life ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 2. To spend too much time in studies,... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 Seiten
...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...can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by-one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of ¡ittnirs, come best from those that... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 392 Seiten
...the other, and cheerfully sacrifice the sinful pleasures of a few years to the holy joys of eternity. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots,1 and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 Seiten
...request to a greate man as his ire, and yet not in an ill cause, it is so much out of his reputation. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....judgment and disposition of business. For expert men s can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots... | |
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