 | Manual - 1809 - 288 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pagina’s
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. OF STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; forornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pagina’s
...Two dots ( . . ) denote the shortest rhetorical pause ; three dots, (...) a longer pause, and so on.) STUDIES' . . serve for delight', for ornament', and...ability'. Their chief use for delight', is' . . in retired privacy'; for ornament', in discourse'; and for ability', in the arrangement and disposition... | |
 | 1836 - 378 pagina’s
...the sententious wisdom of the greatest 214 of modern philosophers. " Studies," says my Lord Bacon, " serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatcness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; anil for ability, is in tho judgment and... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 pagina’s
...sentences; and analyse the following essay, by Lord Bacon, into sentences, and their various parts: — Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament is iri discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute,... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1845 - 252 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for • ability. Their chief use for delight, is in private- J ness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. 
