 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...  Mechanics Magazine - Page 671824Full view - About this book
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 462 pages
...produce new varieties, and even to make improvements on the species. " Expert men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and " judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general " counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, " come best from those that are learned." INDEED, in almost every art, even... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...ability , is in the judgment and ilisposition of business. For expert men can execute , and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels , and the plots , and marshalling of affairs , come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business : for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...for ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend toe much time in studies is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 520 pages
...fpeculation muft be combined together to prepare us for the latter. " Ex" pert men," fays Lord Bacon, " can execute and " judge of particulars one by one ; but the general " counfels, and the plots, and the marfhalling of af" fairs, come beft from thofe that are learned."... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 528 pages
...speculation must be combined together to prepare us for the latter. " Expert men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and judge of particulars one by one ; " but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshal" ling of affairs, come best from those that are learned." SECTION VIII. Continuation of the... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1815 - 604 pages
...speculation must be combined together to " prepare us for the latter." « Expert men,' says Lord Bacon, ' can execute and judge of particulars, one by one ;...marshalling of affairs, come best ' from those that arc learned.' Admitting the truth of these observations — and their truth 1 think eannot well be... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1815 - 632 pages
...speculation must be combined together to " prepare us for the latter." • Expert men,' says Lord Bacon, ' can execute and judge of particulars, one by one ;...the plots, and the marshalling of affairs, come best 1 from those that are learned.' Admitting the truth of these observations — and their truth I think... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business : for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one : but the general counsels-, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is... | |
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