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" The good parts he hath he will learn to show to the full, and use them dexterously, but not much to increase them : the faults he hath he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mower, that mows on still, and never... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ... - Page 61
by Francis Bacon - 1826
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...full, and use them dexterously, but not much to increase them : the faults he hath, he will learn how saying ngainst perfidious or neglecting friends, thnt veritas and banitas differ but as the seal and the print : for truth prints goodness ; and they...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...dexterously, but not much to increase them: the faults he hath, he will learn how to hide and color them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mower,...amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in...
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Exercises on Words: Designed as a Course of Practice on the Rudiments of ...

William Russell - 1856 - 240 pages
...dexterously, but not much to increase them; the faults he hath he will learn 12 how to hide and color them, but not much to amend them; like an ill mower,...amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. Nayts/arther, — in general and in sum, — certain it is that truth and goodness differ but as the...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...full and use them dexterously, but not much to increase them: the faults he hath he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them;...his mind with the use and employment thereof. Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that verilas and bonitus differ but as the seal and the...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 pages
...full and use them dexterously, but not much to increase them : the faults he hath he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them...his mind with the use and employment thereof. Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that veritas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...full and use them dexterously, but not much to increase them : the faults he hath he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them...his mind with the use and employment thereof. Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that veritas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...dexterously, but not much to increase them: the faults he hath, he will learn how to hide and color them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mower,...amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 pages
...full, and use them dexterously, but not much to increase them : the knits he hath, he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them...mows on still and never whets his scythe. Whereas, 0ith the learned man it fares otherwise, that he doth ever intermix the correction ud amendment of...
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The Works, Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...full and use them dexterously, but not much --to increase them : the i'aults he hath he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them...his mind with the use and employment thereof. Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that veritas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...dexterously, but not much to increase them : the faults he hath, he will learn how to hide and color them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mower,...correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employ . ment thereof. STUDIES. plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give...
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