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" For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs but it is the stirring of the earth and putting new mould about the roots that must work it. "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord ... - Page 68
by Francis Bacon - 1824
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Home, the School and the Church: Or, The Presbyterian Education ..., Volume 7

1857 - 216 pages
...passage. For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...putting new mould about the roots, that must work it." * Bacon's Works, vol. 2d, p. 90. Montagu's edition. t Ibid. p. 93. I do not look to the Legislature...
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The American Church Monthly, Volume 1

Henry Norman Hudson - 1857 - 494 pages
...passage. For, if you will have a tree boar more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not any thing you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...the roots, that must work it. Neither is it to be forgotteu, that the dedicating of foundations and donations to professory learning hath not only had...
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Cambridge Essays, Volume 1

1856 - 416 pages
...passage. For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...putting new mould about the roots, that must work it.* Bacon's authority may not have been without influence in bringing about the change which he desired,...
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Cambridge Essays, 1855-58

1855 - 338 pages
...passage. For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...putting new mould about the roots, that must work it.* Bacon's authority may not have been without influence in bringing about " e change which he desired,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Translations of the philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 522 pages
...deeper of. For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it has used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the earth, and putting richer mould about the roots, that must work it. Neither is it to be forgotten that this dedication...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...passage. For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it bath used to do, U is not any thing you can do to the boughs, but it Is the stirring of the...that must work it. Neither is it to be forgotten, tbat this dedicating of foundations and dotations to nrofcssory learning, hath not only had a malign...
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The Works, Volume 4

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pages
...deeper of. For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it has used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the earth, and putting richer mould about the roots, that must work it. Neither is it to be forgotten that this dedication...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 5-6

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 pages
...that the dedicating of foundations and donations to professory learning, hath not only had a malign influence upon the growth of sciences, but hath also...prejudicial to states and governments : For hence it proceedcth, that princes find a solitude in respect of able men to serve them in causes of state, because...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 pages
...passage. For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not any thing you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...forgotten that this dedicating of foundations and dotao tions to profcssory learning hath not only had a malign aspect and influence upon the growth...
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The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3

William Henry Seward - 1853 - 666 pages
...said, " If you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath been used to do, it is not anything yon can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...putting new mould about the roots, that must work it." Our Bevolutionary sires sung of the "Tree of Liberty" they planted and watered with blood, and we who...
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