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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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The essays of lord Bacon, including his moral and historical works, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...dexterously, but not much to increase them ; the faults he hath, he will learn 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 Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 438 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...his mind with the use and employment thereof. Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that Vtritas and Bonilas differ but as the seal and the...
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 2

Literature - 1886 - 552 pages
...faults he hath he will learn how to hide and color them, but not much to amend them, like an illmower that mows on still and never whets his scythe. Whereas,...amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. FRANCIS BACON. LIFE. | " IFE, I know not what thou art, -1— ^ But know that thou and I must part;...
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Works, Volume 1

Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 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...his mind with the use and employment thereof. Nay, further, in general and in sum, certain it is that Veritas and Bonitatt differ but as the seal and...
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Education Mosaics

Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Education - 1887 - 286 pages
...dexterously, but not much to increase them ; the faults he hath, he will learn how to hide and color them, but not much to amend them; like an ill mower, that mows...amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. FRANCIS BACON. IN thine own circumference, as in that of the earth, let the rational horizon be larger...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 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...learned man it fares otherwise, that he doth ever inteimix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. Nay further,...
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, Part 11

William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 282 pages
...unto Ood, which they intermix with instruments of music. Sir T. Man, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 11. He doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment tnereof. I in,; 'ii, Advancement of Learning, 1. 97. U. intrans. To be mixed together; become intermingled....
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English Composition and Rhetoric, Part 1

Alexander Bain - English language - 1890 - 376 pages
...diseases, and that they be l\ept and maintained with much less cost and chanje.' ' The learned man doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and emplogment thereof.' ' The one provokes and incites the most languid appetite, and the other turns...
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Typical Selections from the Best English Writers, Volume 1

English literature - 1891 - 478 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...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 the...
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Convocation Addresses of the Universities of Bombay and Madras

Baccalaureate addresses - 1892 - 622 pages
...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 whets his scythe. Whereas...of his mind with the use and employment thereof." Our words, then, to you, gentlemen, are "Onward and Upward;" and permit me to remind you that immediately...
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