 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...  Modern Culture - Stran 315uredili: - 1897Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 341 strani
...Two dots ( . . ) denote the shortest rhetorical pause ; three dots, (...) a longer pause, and so on.) STUDIES' . . serve for delight', for ornament', and...ability'. Their chief use for delight', is' . . in retired privacy'; for ornament', in discourse'; and for ability', in the arrangement and disposition... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1834 - 178 strani
...by commas; as, " When the graces of novelty are worn off, admiration is succeeded by indifference." "Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them." But when the members are closely connected, the comma is unnecessary; as, " Revelation tells us how... | |
 | 1835
...a more interesting, beloved and loving husband, a more valuable and respected parent." ON STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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,... | |
 | Time - 1835
...uphold ; as was Scipio Africanus ; of whom Livy saith in effect, Ultima primis cedebant. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1835 - 527 strani
...upon the sententious wisdom of the greatest of modern philosophers. " Studies," says my Lord Bacon, "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. — Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ;... | |
 | 1835
...interesting, beloved and loving husband, a more valuable and respected parent." ON STUDIES. SjuniEs serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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,... | |
 | 1836
...the sententious wisdom of the greatest 214 of modern philosophers. " Studies," says my Lord Bacon, " serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatcness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; anil for ability, is in tho judgment and... | |
 | 1837
...his old age. We will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus: — ' Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838
...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....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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 832 strani
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use : but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.... | |
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