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The essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good ... - Page 184
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680
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Desultoria: The Recovered Mss. of an Eccentric

Eccentric literature - 1850 - 230 pages
...curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention — some books also, may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others, but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. • Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort c of books: else distilled books are like common distilled...
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Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best ...

Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books 25 also, may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sorts of books ; else distilled books...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...wholly, and_wi(h diligence and attention. Some books also птцу be read by deputy, and extracta made of them .by .others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books ^re, ïïke common distilled...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and without diligence and attention. Some books, also, may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled...
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The Illustrated London Reading Book

English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...not curiously ; and some few to bt read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sorts of books ; else distilled books...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral ; And, Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...not curioufly ; and fome Few to be read wholly, and with Diligence and Attention. Some Books alfo may be read by Deputy, and Extracts made of them by others...only in the lefs important Arguments, and the meaner Sort of Books : elfe diftilled Booh are like common diftilled Waters, flafhy Things. Reading maketh...
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Foliorum Centuriae: Selections for Translation Into Latin and Greek Prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled...
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