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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 18
by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 pages
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...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 for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business : for, expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...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 for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for, expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...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 judge of particulars,...
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The Educational record, with the proceedings at large of the ..., Volumes 3-4

British and foreign school society - 1857 - 548 pages
...Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The 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 judge of particulars...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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 judge of particulars,...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...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 judge of particulars,...
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Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta ...

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...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 exeeute and perhaps judge of business one...
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The popular educator, Volume 3

Popular educator - 1860 - 536 pages
...STUDIES servo for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief UM for delight, ia in privatcness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in tho judgment and disposition of business: for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The 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 judge of particulars...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Treatise on Elocution, Exercises in ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...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 judge of particulars,...
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