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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... "
General Report on Public Instruction in the Bengal Presidency - Page xlvii
1843
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...hath, he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mo wer,that mows on still and never whets his scythe. Whereas...employment thereof. Nay, farther, in general and in sum, certain it is, that vciitas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the print: for truth prints...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...colour them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mo wer,that mows on still and never whets hi* scythe. Whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise,...employment thereof. Nay, farther, in general and in sum, • certain it is, that veritas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the print : for truth prints...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mower,that mows on still and never whets his scvthe. Whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise, that...employment thereof. Nay, farther, in general and in sum, certain it is, that veritas and bunitus differ but as the seal and the print : for truth prints...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...: the faults he hath, he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them : Jike an ill mower, that mows on still and never whets his...employment thereof. Nay, farther, in general and in sum, certain it is, that vcritas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the print : for truth prints...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...hath, he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mo wer,that mows on still and never whets his scythe. Whereas with the learned man it fares othetr •wise, that he doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...dexterously, but not much to increase them. The faults he hath he learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them ; like an ill mower, that mows...employment thereof. Nay farther, in general and in sum, certain it is that veritas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the print : for truth prints...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...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...employment thereof. Nay farther, in general and in sum, certain it is that veritas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the print : for truth prints...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...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...employment thereof. Nay, farther, in general and in sum, certain it is, that veritas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the print : for truth prints...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...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...employment thereof. Nay, farther, in general and in sum, certain it is, that veritas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the print : for truth prints...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...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...
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