 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...  Self Culture - Page 3151897Full view - About this book
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...study; and studies do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.—Bacon.... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...study; and studies do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.—Bacon.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1855 - 360 pages
...the depths of the earth and sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. 4. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them. REMARKS. a. The first and second of these sentences exemplify the use of phrases in the same construction... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - 1991 - 492 pages
...serue for Delight, for Ornament, and for Ability. Their Chiefe Vse for Delight, is in Priuatenesse and Retiring; For Ornament, is in Discourse; And for Ability, is in the ludgement and Disposition of Businesse. 30 For Expert Men can Execute, and perhaps ludge of particulars,... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...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... | |
 | 1889 - 1032 pages
..."StU'iies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their cbiel use for delight is in privateuess and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse, and for...ability is In the judgment and disposition of business." ]O. Define pitch, force and rate. PENMANSHIP. 1. Give the height of the following letters : a, B. c,... | |
 | Colin Charles Bayne-Jardine, Peter Holly - 1994 - 164 pages
...project commissioned by the LEA from Worcester College of Higher Education. As Francis Bacon wrote: 'crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them'. This evaluation report has been used to develop and refine an interactive model for training that will... | |
 | Nehgs - 1995 - 498 pages
...Resources, Delivered before the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association, May 9, 1872. By ALONZO TAFT. " Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them." — Lord Bacon. Cincinnati. Robert Clarke & Co. 1872. Mr. Taft has put into a compact form a very full... | |
 | Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, Michael Irmscher - 1998 - 238 pages
...when we transplant a text from a foreign language into our own. The first passage of that essay reads: "Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for...for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business."4 The introduction of the Bacon essay enlarges the parameters of translation workshop activities:... | |
 | Roy Bedichek, Jane Gracy Bedichek - 1998 - 494 pages
...therein that one of the wisest men believes that studies are for delight, ornament and ability; and that crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them. I shall have to believe, then, that you are "crafty," since you contemn them so vigorously, whereas... | |
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