Questions and Answers of the essay "Of Studies" by Francis Bacon.

1. What are the aims of studies stated by Bacon in his essay 'Of Studies"? What are the results of studies?

2. Summary of the Essay Of Studies.

3. Bacon’s Prose Style: Brief analysis.

4. Origin and nature of Bacon’s essays

Explanations

1. “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.”

2. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar.

3. "Natural abilities are like natural plants that need proyning by study."

4. Crafty, men contemn studies, simple men admire them and wise men use them.

5. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

6. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

7. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

8. Nay there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises.