 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
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 strani
...entirely of aphorisms and detached sentences. The extracts which follow are from his Essays.] 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 par(36) ticulars, one by one ; but the general counsels,... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1845 - 252 strani
...gain bv conquest. 6* / 66 COBB'S NEW SEQUEL, OR, FOURTH READING BOOK. READING LESSON XVI. On Study. 1. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privacy and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition... | |
 | London univ - 1846 - 326 strani
...Morning, 10 to 1. GREEK PROSE COMPOSITION. Examiner, Rev. Dr. JERRARD. Translate into Greek Prose : 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,... | |
 | 1846 - 838 strani
...current until they finally and conjointly merge in the ocean of Eternity. THE USES OF STUDIES. — "Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for...ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in judgment and duposition for business." — Thoughts by Bacon. THE Journal of f^ealtf) antj AUGUST,... | |
 | Peter Bullions - 1846 - 252 strani
...by commas ; as, " When the graces of novelty are worn off, admiration i* 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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 strani
...virtuous' exertion', to shed through our souls', the blessedness' of heaven'. Finlavson. V. ON STUDY. Studies' serve' for delight', for ornament', and for...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 - 1847 - 712 strani
...distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ! [Studiet.] privatoness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, ia in the judgment and... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 strani
...least of all, such a change as they would bring us. Exercise 3 — Illustrating Rule 4, Page 20. _ 1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in retired privacy; for ornament, in discourse ; and for ability, in the arrangement and disposition of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 strani
...the one of the other 1 Stuilies s?rve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief иче readers will be amused by the following extracts from this performance, the first of which Í3 in the judgment nnd disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 strani
...suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. 54 55 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,... | |
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