 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1845 - 252 pages
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 838 pages
...current until they finally and conjointly merge in the ocean of Eternity. THE USES OF STUDIES. — "Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for...ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in judgment and duposition for business." — Thoughts by Bacon. THE Journal of f^ealtf) antj AUGUST,... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...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 - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...the one of the other 1 Stuilies s?rve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief иче readers will be amused by the following extracts from this performance, the first of which Í3 in the judgment nnd disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...now, old Dobson, turning pale, Yields to his fate. So ends my tale. MILS. T:i ll.tl.H. 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... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...contrivers of suits ; for they are hut a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of paiticulars one by one : but the general counsels, and tihe plots and marshalling of affairs, come... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ! [Studio.] would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers, and meadows, and flowers, and fountains, privatenesi and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in thejudgment and disposition... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...holiness to which only a desperate heart could be insensible. 15 EXERCISE VII. Studies. — BACON. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one 6 by one ; but the general counsels, and... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 740 pages
...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 judgment and disposition of businesse." And soon after : — " To spend too much time in studies is sloth ;: to use them too much... | |
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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... 
