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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a ... - Page 134
by Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 240 pages
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Time and temper: a manual of selections from holy Scripture and extr. from ...

Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...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,...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...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 2

1835 - 430 pages
...is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time...
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The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 2

1835 - 430 pages
...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,...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...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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,...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...
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The Young Lady's Reader

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment »nd disposition of business ; for expert men can execute,...particulars, one by one : but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...delight', is' . . in retired privacy'; for ornament', in discourse'; and for ability', in the arrangement and disposition of business': for expert men can execute',...perhaps', judge of particulars' , one by one'; but general councils', and the plots and marshalling of affairs' , come best from the learned*.* To spend...
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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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,...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...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34

American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...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,...particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come but from those that are learned. To spend too much time...
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A Treatise on Grammatical Punctuation: Designed for Letter Writers, Authors ...

John Wilson - English language - 1844 - 142 pages
...delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament is iri discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute,...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...
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Cobb's New Sequel to the Juvenile Readers, Or, Fourth Reading Book ...

Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1845 - 252 pages
...for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. 2. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...of affairs, come best from those who are learned. 3. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ;...
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