 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...  Self Culture - Stran 3151897Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 strani
...are not spoiled till those of nature age are already sunk into corruption. ON STUDIES.— LORD BACOU. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment »nd disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 strani
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 strani
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 strani
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 602 strani
...spirit. In illustration of these remarks, we shall quote the first part of his essay 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 strani
...of the other ! [ S/liâtes.] Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their cljief ed night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of...heard My mother Circe, with the Syrens three, Amidst t ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 strani
...sentences; and analyse the following essay, by Lord Bacon, into sentences, and their various parts: — Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament is iri discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute,... | |
 | 1844 - 456 strani
...Studio wire for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief nw for delight, is In privBteness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can exccute, and perhaps judge of particular!, one by one : but the general counsels,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 strani
...of ability." " Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds — they ever fly by twilight." " 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 strani
...of ability." " Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds — they ever fly by twilight." " 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 hy observation. Read not... | |
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