 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...and retirement; for ornament ,is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement, and disposition of business : For expert men can .execute, and. perhaps...particulars, one by .one ; but the general counsels, and plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. 2. To spend too much time... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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...wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect Nature, and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...privatenessand retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps...best from those that are learned. To spend too much time"in Studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...and retirement; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability is in the judgement and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps...by their rules is the humour of a scholar.— They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience } for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge 6f particulars, one by one; but the general counsels,...wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the genera^ counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs,...by their rules is the humour of a scholar. — They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...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...those that are learned. To spend too much time in studifj, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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...wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps jndge of particulars, one -by one r but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling...those that are learned. To spend too much time in stndies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make jndgment wholly by... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spund too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too...wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
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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. 
