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
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1883 - 454 Seiten
...Note — Rhet. div. of words 27 Rule 12 THE ELOCUTIONIST. PROMISCUOUS SELECTIONS IN PROSE. On Study. STUDIES' serve' for delight', for ornament', and for...ornament', is in discourse'; and for ability', is in the judgement' and disposition' of business'. For expert' men can execute', and perhaps judge' of particulars,... | |
| James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 Seiten
...characteristic, of these remarkable essays is the one on Studies. It is brief; we copy it entire : Stndies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the jndgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps jndge of particulars,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1884 - 722 Seiten
...isjurt.' Loet Ruined, ESSAY L. OF STUDIES. OTUI)lKi3 serve for delight, for ornament, and for aliility. ^ Their chief use for delight is in privateness,' and...general ' counsels, and the plots and marshalling of atiairs, come bed from those that arc learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 Seiten
...suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. — OF STUDIES.2 STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and per1 "Ask what is exorbitant, that you may obtain what is moderate." haps judge of particulars one... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1884 - 468 Seiten
...suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. — OF STUDIES.2 STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....disposition of business; for expert men can execute, and per1 "Ask what is exorbitant, that you may obtain what is moderate." haps judge of particulars one... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 Seiten
...suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. — OF STUDIES.2 STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and per1 "Ask what is exorbitant, that you may obtain what is moderate." 2 This formed the first essay... | |
| Book-lover - 1884 - 530 Seiten
...knowledge, and knowledge, best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading. LORD BACON. 1561 — 1629. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. . . . Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and... | |
| Alexander Ireland - 1884 - 526 Seiten
...knowledge, and knowledge, best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading. LORD BACON. 1561 — 1629. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. . . Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1885 - 426 Seiten
...liveries ; or in the goodly furniture of their horses and armour. But enough of these toys. Essays. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment 28 FRANCIS BACON, VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS. and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and... | |
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