 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
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 426 strani
...now, old Dobson, turning pale, Yields to his fate. So ends my tale. MILS. T:i ll.tl.H. 105. On Study. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is for privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1848 - 142 strani
...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." I. But when the members are closely connected, the comma is unnecessary ; as, " Revelation tells us... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849
...distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ! [Studio.] would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers, and meadows, and flowers, and fountains, privatenesi and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in thejudgment and disposition... | |
 | Peter Bullions - 1849 - 240 strani
...992. RULE 3. — In compound sentences, the clauses or members are usually separated by commas ; as, " Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them.'' But when the clauses are short, or closely connected, the comma is not used , as, " Revelation tells... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 120 strani
...holiness to which only a desperate heart could be insensible. 15 EXERCISE VII. Studies. — BACON. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one 6 by one ; but the general counsels, and... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850
...religious and moral duties. XV. — ON STUDY. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850
...Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatenes« traction of that living intellect that bred them....they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850
...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. Their chief use for delight, is in private- J ness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850
...Letter of 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 to... | |
 | Peter Bullions - 1850 - 214 strani
...commas ; as, " When the graces of novelty are worn off, admiration is succeeded hy indifference." ,' Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them." But when the memhers are closely connected, the comma is unnecessary ; as, " Revelation tells us how... | |
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