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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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Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 4

Charles Knight - 1847 - 620 pages
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 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"J and "bonitas"§ differ but as the seal...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...full, and use them dexterously, but not much to increase them: the faults he hath, he will learn how bert [Hooka and Skips Compared.]^ If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carricth riches...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...them dexterously, but not much to. increase them; the faults he hath he will learn how to hide aod colour them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mower, that mows on still, and never whew his scythe. Whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise, that he doth ever intermix the correction...
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Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 2

Charles Knight - 1850 - 652 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...full, and use them dexterously, but not much to increase them; the faults he hath he will learn how firmn further, in general and in sum, certain it is that " veritas" and "bonitas" differ but as the seal...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...full, and use them dexterouslv, but not much to increase them: the faults he hath, he will leani how will suffice to show : — Sonnet made on Isabella...in yoodlg attire, and talked to divert ш the court over intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use aud employment thereof. [Bool»...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 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. i This expression is given in the original in Latin. PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. The virtue of prosperity...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 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. 1 This expression is given in the original in Latin. 390 8IB FRANCIS BACON. [LECr. XVH. The virtue...
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Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 pages
...full, and ufe them dexteroufly, but not much to increafe 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 ftill, and never whets his Scythe. Whereas with the learned man it fares otherwife, that he doth ever...
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