privateness

An “awkward, but beautiful addition to my work”, he called it: a collaborative antidote to “the privateness and loneliness of painting”.

Their chief use for pastimes is in privateness and retiring; for ornaments, in discourse; and for ability, in judgment....

Bacon himself said of Studies, “Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring.”

Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business.

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.