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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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The Young Lady's Reader

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 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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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34

American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...curiousry ; 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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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ..., Volume 19

Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...moisture up, then turn to ashes. Carew. Лп Elegy upon the Death of Dr. Donne. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others : but that would be, onely in the lesse important arguments, and the meaner sort of books : else distilled books are like...
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Cobb's New Sequel to the Juvenile Readers, Or, Fourth Reading Book ...

Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1845 - 252 pages
...curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. 7. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others: but that should be in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of bobks; else distilled books are like...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 20

1846 - 534 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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English Grammar: Style, Rhetoric, and Poetry ; to which are Added ...

Richard Hiley - English language - 1846 - 330 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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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may garden painted o'er \Vith Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace migh less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled...
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The Massachusetts Teacher, Volume 1

Education - 1848 - 398 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 only be in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like...
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