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. For expert men can execute, and perhaps... A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank]. - Pągina 224per James Flamank - 1833Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| English instructor - 1801 - 272 pągines
...kind , and » does not fall in with the madness of a » multitude. » SPECTATOR. ON STUDY. OTUDIES serve for delight , for ornament , and for ability...., is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute , and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; bui the general counsels... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pągines
...ever be found to afibrd the most kindly soil for its cultivation. MELMOTH. CHAP. IX. On Study. STUDIES 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... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 pągines
...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,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pągines
...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,... | |
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pągines
...cultivation. MELMOTH. .S 1 I:,. * CHAP. IX. ON S FUDY. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, asd for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness...ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels,,and... | |
| Manual - 1809 - 288 pągines
...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 of business : for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels,... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pągines
...and animals, and ocean, and winds. CHAP. III. DIDACTIC PIECES. a )_ > =g SECTION I. On Study. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness. and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and disposition of business.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pągines
...to public proceedings. o* %ttltliC0, STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring;...ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pągines
...to public proceedings. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring...ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business : for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one : but the general counsels-,... | |
| 1818 - 506 pągines
...applicable to this part of my subject, more especially as blended with what has gone before : " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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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