 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...  A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed - Seite 114von Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 889 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 Seiten
...such admirable language. OF STUDIE& From his Essays. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, aiid for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness...affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 Seiten
...he doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of part irulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and '.he plots and marshalling of affairs, come... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1866 - 342 Seiten
...The following extract from Lord Bacon, however excellent in other respects, is deficient in melody. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....by 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 sloth;... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 Seiten
...stop, falleth out of his own favor, and is not the thing he was. From " Essays." STUDIES. LORD BicoN. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 Seiten
...stop, falleth out of his own favor, and is not the thing he was. From " Essays." STUDIES. LOBD BACON. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of aft'airs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1867 - 374 Seiten
...following extract from Lord Bacon, however excellent in other respects, is deficient in melody : — " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....by 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 sloth... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 258 Seiten
...ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for drnament is in discourse; and for ability is in the judgment...of affairs come best from those that are learned." From those tluit are learned; yes, but a studious youth is the necessary preliminary to a learned manhood.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 Seiten
...Therefore mark my counsel . . . . or both yourself and me Cry, lost.' — Shakespere. OF STUDIES. OTUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend top much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make"... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 694 Seiten
...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...affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make2... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 Seiten
...they do retain much life and vigour, because reason cannot be so sensible, nor examples so fit. 3. Of Studies. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make... | |
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