 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
 | John White - 1850 - 198 strani
...Advice should be, seasonably, administered. The best men, often, experience disappointments. RULE III. Crafty men contemn studies simple men admire them and wise men use them. Peace of mind being secured we may smile at misfortune. Charity suffereth long and is kind. The temperate... | |
 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850
...the following may be cited as a proof of his perfection in this great attribute of composition:— " 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850
...contrivers of suits; for thev are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. OF STUDIES. etimes to entertain their minds with variety and i'or delight, is in privateness and retiring ; Tor. ornainentjTs and for ability, is in t of business... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 558 strani
...advantageously dispkys his fullness and richness of thought and of style than this on the use of study. " 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. L. OP STUDIES4. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and; for...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,... | |
 | 1851 - 264 strani
...vegetaI bles, at the meals. 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 i counsels,... | |
 | ...deviate from the original. I. ON STUDY. " Studies serve for delight, for oinament, 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,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1852
...but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings, 54 ESSAYS CIVIL AND MORAL. 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,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 360 strani
...comfort. [King's College, 1835.] 65. 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,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1852 - 1 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, born by observation.... | |
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