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The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture - Page 2069
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The Essays Or Counsels Civil and Moral. With the Wisdom of the Ancients ...

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Retiring ; for Ornament is in Difcourfe ; and for Ability is in the Judgement and Difpofition of Bufinefs. For expert Men can execute, and perhaps judge of Particulars, one by one ; but the general Counfels, and the Plots and marfhalling of Affairs come beft from thofe that are learned. To fpend...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 4

Henry Barnard - Education - 1857 - 880 pages
...second class of persons characterized by Lord Bacon, when he says that " expert men can execute and judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned." Mr. Dwight's business led him frequently...
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American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 4

Education - 1857 - 956 pages
...second class of persons characterized by Lord Bacon, when he says that "expert шеи can execute and judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned." Mr. Dwight's business led him frequently...
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Memoir of Edmund Dwight

Francis Bowen - 1857 - 444 pages
...second class of persons characterized by Lord Bacon, when he says that " expert men can execute and judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned." Mr. Dwight's business led him frequently...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 3

Literature - 1909 - 378 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...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...
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Planning-programming-budgeting: Inquiry of the Subcommittee on National ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1970 - 712 pages
...privateness and retiring; for ornament is in discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and dispositon of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps...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...
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Planning, Programming, Budgeting: Inquiry

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations - Program budgeting - 1970 - 706 pages
...retiring; for ornament is in discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and dispositon of business tor expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of, particulars...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...
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Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626

B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...find 'For expert men can execute but learned men are fittest to judge and censure.' In 1625 we find 'For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of...by one; but the general counsels and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. ' In other words, men only of practice...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 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...judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels,1 and the plots and marshalling* of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend...
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The Essayes Or Counsels, Civill and Morall

Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...5 For Ornament, is in Discourse; And for Ability, is in the Judgement and Disposition of Businesse. For Expert Men can Execute, and perhaps Judge of particulars, one by one; But the generall Counsels, and the Plots, and Marshalling of Affaires, come best from those that are Learned....
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