...suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. — OF STUDIES.2 STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....disposition of business; for expert men can execute, and per1 "Ask what is exorbitant, that you may obtain what is moderate." haps judge of particulars one...

...suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. — OF STUDIES.2 STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and per1 "Ask what is exorbitant, that you may obtain what is moderate." 2 This formed the first essay...

...knowledge, and knowledge, best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading. LORD BACON. 1561 — 1629. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. . . . Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and...

...knowledge, and knowledge, best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading. LORD BACON. 1561 — 1629. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. . . Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,...

...liveries ; or in the goodly furniture of their horses and armour. But enough of these toys. Essays. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment 28 FRANCIS BACON, VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS. and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and...

...in the opinions of the Great Jurists to be found in the Digest or Pandects. "Studies," says Bacon, "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability is in the judgment and disposition of business." Approaching the matter with those words in mind, one observes at once that much of the substance of...

...words which we do well to bear in mind if we would keep our sense of proportion : "Studies," he says, "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and dispositon of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of, particulars one by one. But...

...Dissertations allemandes. 1 . Das deutsche Hofepos. 3. Hat Dculschland eine XXIII Version anglaise. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in (he judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can exécute and perhaps judge of particulars,...

...other essays and much else. In 1612 the first part of the 1597 text is repeated unaltered : it runs: Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability;...ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in judgment. For expert men can execute, but learned men are fittest to judge or censure. To spend too...

...when we transplant a text from a foreign language into our own. The first passage of that essay reads: "Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for...for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business."4 The introduction of the Bacon essay enlarges the parameters of translation workshop activities:...