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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. "
Works - Página 410
por Edward FitzGerald - 1887
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The English instructor; or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose ...

English instructor - 1801 - 272 páginas
...multitude. » SPECTATOR. ON STUDY. OTUDIES serve for delight , for ornament , and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring;...execute , and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; bui the general counsels , and the plots , and marshalling of affairs , come best from those that...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 páginas
...serve for delight , for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for dilight is in pri— vateness and retiring ; for ornament , is in discourse ; and for ability , is in the judgment and ilisposition of business. For expert men can execute , and perhaps judge of particulars one by one...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volumen3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 páginas
...serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chiefe use for delight, is in privatenesse and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of businesse. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volumen2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 páginas
...serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chiefe use for delight, is in privatenesse and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of businesse. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - 1809 - 288 páginas
...himself; he has more pride and ambition than any other sort of sinner. ESSAY 5. OF STUDIES. (Lord Bacon.) 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...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volumen2

1818 - 506 páginas
...blended with what has gone before : " 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. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them. Reading maketh a full man,...
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 páginas
...both mother and daughter to be maintained at the public expense. 'CBBS <L CHAPTER LXIX. ON STUDY 1. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatenes? and retirement; for ornament ,is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement, and...
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 páginas
...contrivers of Suits, for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. ©f &TUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatenessand retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition...
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The works of Francis Bacon, Volumen2

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 páginas
...to put>h'c proceedings. rbi ' '.. . •' .:.'.:•£ 't*';?' ;..-.• L. OF STUDIES. :,.^~z:^zn ^x-: STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge 6f particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling- of affairs, come...
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The British Prose Writers, Volumen1

1821 - 416 páginas
...contrivers of suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. LI. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the jndgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps jndge of particulars,...
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