 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 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...counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come but from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to to use them too much... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 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...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 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...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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...use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make2 judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected... | |
 | 1856 - 428 pages
...particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots mid marshalling of affairs, vorne best from those that are learned. To spend too much...wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities arc like natural plants, that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 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...particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and '.he plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 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 -J studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make2 judgment wholly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 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...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,... | |
 | Psychiatry - 1857 - 652 pages
...may be said to have lived long in every thing, in years will rarely reach the age of the neuters. 8. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use...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 and foreign school society - 1857 - 548 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...plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is... | |
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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. 
