 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
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, Í3 in the judgment nnd disposition of business ; affair*, come best from those that nre learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use... | |
 | Salem Town - Elocution - 1847 - 420 pages
...privacy; for ornament, in discourse ; and for ability, in the arrangement and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but general councils, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from the learned. '; 2. To spend... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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 wholly by their rules is the... | |
 | Education - 1848 - 398 pages
...for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and dispositions 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in thejudgment and disposition of business ; in Bishop Taylor's works : — [The Age of Peatón...fight or beget his like, for so he is contemporary ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of paiticulars one by one : but the general counsels, and tihe plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those...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 Campbell - English language - 1849 - 472 pages
...men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general councils, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned." Indeed, in almost every art, even as used by mere practitioners, there are certain rules, as hath been... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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 - 1850 - 892 pages
...retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. and practice may be fiilled to an extreme degree of...baladines ; <hf one being the «ame in the mind, that r/To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ;... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...judgment and disposition of business. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one 6 by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and...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... | |
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