 | 1855 - 396 pagina’s
...think it sufficient to excuse them, if they go out of their way in a well-beaten track. JOHN LOCKE. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pagina’s
...catholic spirit. In illustration of these remarks, we shall quote the first part of bis essay on " Studies." Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...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... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pagina’s
...objects that surround it. W. Danby. 105. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring;...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pagina’s
...objects that surround it.— W. Danby. 105. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring;...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pagina’s
...advantageously displays his fullness and richness of thought and of style than this on the use of study. • " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pagina’s
...will conclude with the chief reason of all, which is, that it disposeth the constitution of the rnind not to be fixed or settled in the defects thereof,...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 - 1856 - 406 pagina’s
...public proceedings. 1 To have little effect. 2 To this extent. a Of the information. L.-OF STUDIES.1 STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pagina’s
...STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatcness1 and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to... | |
 | British and foreign school society - 1857 - 548 pagina’s
...deviate from the original. I. ON STUDY. " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pagina’s
...STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness1 and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in -J studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation... | |
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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... 
