 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 - Sida 114efter Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 889 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 sidor
...MELMOTH. .S 1 I:,. * CHAP. IX. ON S FUDY. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, asd for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring;...judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels,,and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 sidor
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privacy and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse, and for ability, is...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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 sidor
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness. and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability is...affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend toe much time in studies is sloth; to use them- too much for ornament is affectation; to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 sidor
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. o* %ttltliC0, 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 sidor
...general contrivers of suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 sidor
...general contrivers of Suits, for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. ©f 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 sidor
...serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatenessand retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 sidor
...general contrivers of suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studifj, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 sidor
...contrivers of suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. LI. OP 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 sidor
...to put>h'c proceedings. rbi ' '.. . •' .:.'.:•£ 't*';?' ;..-.• L. OF STUDIES. :,.^~z:^zn ^x-: STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge 6f particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling- of affairs, come... | |
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