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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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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 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...learned man it fares otherwise, that he doth ever inteimix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. Nay further,...
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, Part 11

William Dwight Whitney - 1889 - 282 pages
...unto Ood, which they intermix with instruments of music. Sir T. Man, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 11. He doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment tnereof. I in,; 'ii, Advancement of Learning, 1. 97. U. intrans. To be mixed together; become intermingled....
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English Composition and Rhetoric, Part 1

Alexander Bain - 1890 - 376 pages
...diseases, and that they be l\ept and maintained with much less cost and chanje.' ' The learned man doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and emplogment thereof.' ' The one provokes and incites the most languid appetite, and the other turns...
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Typical Selections from the Best English Writers, Volume 1

1891 - 478 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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Convocation Addresses of the Universities of Bombay and Madras

1892 - 622 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 : like an ill-mower that mows on still and never whets his scythe. Whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise,...
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The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three ..., Volume 1

Henry Coppée - 1893 - 560 pages
...hide and color them, but not much to amend them, like an illmower that mows on still and never whet3 his scythe. Whereas, with the learned man it fares...amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. FRANCIS BACON. LIFE. LIFE, I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part ; And when...
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 11

Henry Morley - 1895 - 496 pages
...the faults he hath, he will learn how to hide ami colour them, but not much to amend them, like to an ill mower, that mows on still, and never whets...of his mind with the use and employment thereof." In power and commandment, knowledge is higher than all princes ; for its command is over the reason,...
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 11

Henry Morley - 1895 - 516 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, like to an ill mower, that mows on still, and never whets his scythe : whereas with the learned man it fares...
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The Advancement of Learning, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 pages
...full, and use them 10 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. _ Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that Veritas \Truth\axA Bonitas [Goodness] differ...
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The Essays: Colours of Good and Evil, & Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 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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