 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, Í3 in the judgment nnd disposition d Witchcraft.] affair*, come best from those that nre learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use... | |
 | Salem Town - Elocution - 1847 - 420 pages
...; but general councils, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from the learned. '; 2. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to form one's judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...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...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by expedience ; for natural abilities require... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...privatenesi and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in thejudgment and disposition c or beautiful in Bishop Taylor's works : — [The...fight or beget his like, for so he is contemporary ; ttay perfect nature, and arc perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants,... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of paiticulars one by one : but the general counsels, and tihe plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those...wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...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...wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...judgment and disposition of business. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one 6 by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a 1 0 scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...ness 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...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. r/To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition uctive, Lhnt are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is eloth ; to use them too much for ornament,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 750 pages
...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...judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholler." And so on. Both writers, then, if there are two, are fond of this same threefold construction,... | |
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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. 
