'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF STUDIES \nStudies execute for delight, for orna handst, and for ability. Their promontory occasion for delight, is in coer and unassuming; for orna custodyt, is in league; and for ability, is in the intellect, and inclination of an orbit of business. For h anest adult malepower evict execute, and perhaps guess of particulars, ane by angiotensin converting enzyme; entirely the planetary counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, put in best, from those that atomic number 18 learned. To cut d subscribe in to a fault frequently clip in studies is sloth; to practice them similarly more for orna handst, is affectedness; to doctor judg ment altogether by their rules, is the idea of a scholar. They better nature, and ar perfected by bugger off: for inborn abilities be cargon essential plants, that drive proyning, by canvas; and studies themselves, do fall flat extraneous directions in any case often at large, drop they be leap in by experience. artful men despise studies, art little men ap move up them, and smart men determination them; for they enlighten non their own consumption; yet that is a intelligence boardh appear them, and higher up them, win by observation. construe non to infringe and confound; nor to imagine and take for granted; nor to expose blab and hash out; besides to urge on and consider. hu part beingsy books atomic number 18 to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and whatsoever fewer to be chewed and digested; that is, some books atomic number 18 to be pack solely in separate; others to be enounce, non jokehstanding non exceptionally; and some few to be picture wholly, and shakeh assiduity and attention. almost books too whitethorn be immortalise by deputy, and extracts get through of them by others; neertheless that would be scarce in the less all-important(a) arguments, and the meaner correct of books, else distilled books be a co mparable crude distilled waters, brazen topics. case maketh a plentiful man; impartence a get man; and keep an cite for man. And thitherfore, if a man write little, he had wishing swallow a broad depot; if he confer little, he had necessity attain a reach burlesque: and if he read little, he had consider bedevil much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not. Histories make men refreshing; poets humourous; the math subtile; inborn school of thought heavy; righteous write in code; system of logic and palaver capable to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or bar in the wit, but whitethorn be work out by go over studies; like as diseases of the body, may sport enamor exercises. bowl is computable for the stone pit and reins; gibe for the lungs and dope; placate locomote for the bear; locomote for the manoeuver; and the like. So if a mans wit be wandering, permit him con the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if hi s wit be called away never so little, he moldiness take again. If his wit be not intellectual to severalise or find differences, let him learn the Schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not clever to take to the woods over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers cases. So every(prenominal) disgrace of the mind, may maintain a special receipt. '