 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.  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 493by Francis Bacon - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...retiring; forornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the... | |
 | Richard Harrison Black - English language - 1825 - 372 pages
...corporeal talent, it is a species of dexterity arising from natural agility. " Expert men can execute and judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general...of affairs, come best from those that are learned." Bacon. Ex-piate, expio, (pins, pious,) I make satisfaction for sin by some pious act. Both atone and... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars...plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those tlrat are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; t» make judgment wholly by their rules, is the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...be combined together to prepare us for the latter. " Expert men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and judge of particulars one by* one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned." SECTION VIII. Continuation of the... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and, perhaps, judge of...learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment 2 wholly by their rules is the... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - Agriculturists - 1831 - 618 pages
...latter, experience and speculation must be combined. " Expert men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and judge of particulars one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned •." The influence of the Crown,... | |
 | Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of 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 best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies,... | |
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