 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...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, and for ability....of 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...is in privateness and retirement; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability is in the judgement and disposition of business. For expert men can execute,...of 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 - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...in privateness and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability is in the judgement and disposition of business. For expert men can execute,...perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the genera^ counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.... | |
 | William Henry - Chemistry - 1819 - 440 pages
...must be combined 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." This recommendation to artists,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. LI. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....of 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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...contrivers of suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. LI. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the jndgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps jndge of particulars,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...contrivers of suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. LI. OF STUDIES. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. LI. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for dalight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for...by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spund too much time in studies is sloth... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...cultivation. PRATT. CHAP. IX. ON STUDY. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...of 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 affection; to make... | |
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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... 
