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Page 113
... Bookes of Morality , is a little Flat , and Dead . Observ- ing our Faults in Others , is sometimes unproper for our Case . ( But the best Receipt ( best ( I say ) to worke , and best to take ) is the Admonition of a Frend . ) It is a ...
... Bookes of Morality , is a little Flat , and Dead . Observ- ing our Faults in Others , is sometimes unproper for our Case . ( But the best Receipt ( best ( I say ) to worke , and best to take ) is the Admonition of a Frend . ) It is a ...
Page 181
... Bookes De Oratore , and a Booke he entitles Orator : Whereof the Former delivers the Precepts of the Art ; And the Latter the Per- fection . We will therefore describe a Princely Pallace , making a briefe Modell thereof . For it is ...
... Bookes De Oratore , and a Booke he entitles Orator : Whereof the Former delivers the Precepts of the Art ; And the Latter the Per- fection . We will therefore describe a Princely Pallace , making a briefe Modell thereof . For it is ...
Page 205
... Bookes also may be read by De- puty , and Extracts made of them by Others : But that would be , onely in the lesse important Arguments , and the Meaner Sort of Bookes : else distilled Bookes , are like Common distilled Waters , Flashy ...
... Bookes also may be read by De- puty , and Extracts made of them by Others : But that would be , onely in the lesse important Arguments , and the Meaner Sort of Bookes : else distilled Bookes , are like Common distilled Waters , Flashy ...
Page 269
... , but that there is a wisdome wthout them , and aboue them wonne by observation : Reade not to contradict , nor to beleeue , but to weigh , and consider . Some bookes are to be tasted , others to be swallowed APPENDIX.
... , but that there is a wisdome wthout them , and aboue them wonne by observation : Reade not to contradict , nor to beleeue , but to weigh , and consider . Some bookes are to be tasted , others to be swallowed APPENDIX.
Page 270
Francis Bacon William Aldis Wright. bookes are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some fewe to be chewed , and disgested : that is some are to be reade onely in partes , others to be reade but curiously , and some fewe to be ...
Francis Bacon William Aldis Wright. bookes are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some fewe to be chewed , and disgested : that is some are to be reade onely in partes , others to be reade but curiously , and some fewe to be ...
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