 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 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 bonit.as differ but as the seal and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 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;...still, and never whets his scythe. Whereas with the learned_man it fares otherwise, that he doth eveMntermix the correction and amend ment^of his mind..with... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 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... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 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...amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1871 - 470 pages
...of glorifying his Maker, and doing good to his fellow-creatures. " The learned man," says Bacon, " doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of...farther, in general and in sum, certain it is that reritat and bonitat differ but as the seal and print ; for truth prints goodness ; and they be the... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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;...amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. WORLDLY PRUDENCE RECOMMENDED. AMONGST all other things of the world, take care of thy estate, which... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 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,...on still and never whets his scythe. Whereas, with ihe learned man it fares otherwise, that he doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his... | |
 | William Chambers - 1873 - 326 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...of his mind with the use and employment thereof.' It is distressing to know that this great man, in his latter years, was guilty of certain moral delinquencies.... | |
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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... 
