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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. "
Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 18
by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 pages
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The Christian's Penny Magazine, Issues 1-82

Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...rriu Ei serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The 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 judge of particulars...
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A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].

James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...Bacon, "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The 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." He, then, who being fully acquainted with his worldly engagements,...
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Moral, Economical, and Political Essays

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...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 judge of paiticulars...
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The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 2

1835 - 430 pages
...SjuniEs 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 judge of particulars...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 2

1835 - 430 pages
...STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness Egypt judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars...
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The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of ...

Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...Bacon, "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. — Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics,...
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Time and temper: a manual of selections from holy Scripture and extr. from ...

Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...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 judge of particulars...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

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

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...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 »nd disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...
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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
...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 judge of particulars,...
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