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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... "
Report to the Trustees of the Dick Bequest for the Benefit of the Parochial ... - Page 327
1844
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The Present Position of the Seceded States: And the Rights and Duties of the ...

Alpheus Crosby - African Americans - 1865 - 32 pages
...Albans, in his well-known essay on Studies : " 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 learn* ed," — not the mere proficients in school learning, for Lord Bacon evidently does...
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The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference

Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1866 - 930 pages
...judgment and disposition of bustness. 3. 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. 4. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament...
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Select Academic Speaker: Containing a Large Number of New and Appropriate ...

Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...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 sloth ; to use them too much for ornament,...
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The Boy Makes the Man: A Book of Anecdotes and Examples for the Use of Youth

William Henry Davenport Adams - Ability - 1867 - 258 pages
...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." From those tluit are learned; yes, but a studious youth is the necessary preliminary...
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Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His ...

Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...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 [3] from those that are learned. To spend too much [!.] STUDIES : In the earliest edition of the Essays,...
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Select Academic Speaker: Containing a Large Number of New and Appropriate ...

Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...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 aft'airs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...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 top much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament,...
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A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice

M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...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 sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is...
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The English language: its grammar and history. Together with a treatise on ...

Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 pages
...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 sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is...
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Typical Selections from the Best English Authors: With Introductory Notices

English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...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 sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is...
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