 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 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... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 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...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... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 396 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
