 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...  The works of Francis Bacon - Side 361af Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 sider
...IX. ON STUDY. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, aud for ability. The chief use for deliglrt is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is...business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one. by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 sider
...understanding, and the richest treasures of mere speculative knowledge. LESSON VI. Studies. — LORD BACON. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots- and marshalling of affairs come... | |
 | 1830 - 288 sider
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use ' for delight is in priYateness and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is...business. For expert men can execute, and, perhaps, judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs ,... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 sider
...gathered together as they lay on the turf of his grandfather's grave. WlLSON* LESSON LXVII. Of Studies. 1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....business; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come... | |
 | 1832 - 670 sider
...neighbour. OF STUDIES, BY LORD BACON. S rriu Ei serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring;...business, for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the ploU and marshalling of affairs come... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 sider
...contrivers of suits ; for they are hit a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of paiticulars one by one : but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 sider
...beams on him. " Studies," observes Lord Bacon, "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring;...ability is in the judgment and disposition of business." He, then, who being fully acquainted with his worldly engagements, who, by industry and skill is proceeding... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 sider
...Two dots ( . . ) denote the shortest rhetorical pause ; three dots, (...) a longer pause, and so on.) STUDIES' . . serve for delight', for ornament', and...ability'. Their chief use for delight', is' . . in retired privacy'; for ornament', in discourse'; and for ability', in the arrangement and disposition... | |
 | 1835 - 430 sider
...a more interesting, beloved and loving husband, a more valuable and respected parent." ON STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one : but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 sider
...uphold ; as was Scipio Africanus ; of whom Livy saith in effect, Ultima primis cedebant. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....business. For, expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come... | |
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