 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 pagina’s
...— Oxford prize essay. Everything suffers from translation except a bishop. — Isrrd C/testerJield. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. — Lord Bucon. The language in which... | |
 | Popular educator - 1854 - 922 pagina’s
...use for delight, is in prirateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, a in the judgment and disposition of business : for...execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; bat the general counsels, and the plots and marshaffing of affairs, come best from those that are... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pagina’s
...dart. And now, old Dobson, turning pale, Yields to his fate. So ends my tale. MRS. THEAI.B. 105. On Study. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is for privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 1272 pagina’s
...30 17 Kill Bogphonu, Cape Anatoli I/ • 1 * 41 11 41 13 29 38 29 10 THE f hrafnr. VOLUME THE FIFTH STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatencss and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1970 - 712 pagina’s
...words which we do well to bear in mind if we would keep our sense of proportion : "Studies," he says, "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and dispositon of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of, particulars one by one. But... | |
 | 1898 - 788 pagina’s
...Dissertations allemandes. 1 . Das deutsche Hofepos. 3. Hat Dculschland eine XXIII Version anglaise. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in (he judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can exécute and perhaps judge of particulars,... | |
 | United States. Defense Contract Audit Agency - 1976 - 152 pagina’s
...studies Sir Francis Bacon wrote about which "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring;...ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in judgment and disposition of business." The Defense Contract Audit Agency is a dynamic organization... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pagina’s
...other essays and much else. In 1612 the first part of the 1597 text is repeated unaltered : it runs: Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability;...ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in judgment. For expert men can execute, but learned men are fittest to judge or censure. To spend too... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pagina’s
...find 'For expert men can execute but learned men are fittest to judge and censure.' In 1625 we find 'For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of...by one; but the general counsels and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. ' In other words, men only of practice... | |
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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. For expert men can execute, and perhaps... 
