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" The works touching books are two : first, libraries which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed... "
The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 69
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819
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Discourses on the Life and Character of John Thornton Kirkland, and of ...

Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 pages
...favorite pieces he not only had by heart, but also had them written down, for convenience' sake, on the full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." — Lord Bacon's Advancement of Learning. " For him was lever han at his beddes head A twenty bokes,...
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So Much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby, as Relates to Her Domestic History ...

Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...appointed, as universities, colleges, and schools for the receipt and comforting the same. LIBRARIES.* saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. PATENT AND LATENT VICE. IN the law of the leprosy it is said, " If the whiteness overspread the flesh,...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...schools, for the receipt and comforting the same. Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics ous shadow, and like that of St Peter, cures the diseases of others. The [Gorernment.] In Orpheus's theatre, all beasts and birds assembled ; and, forgetting their several...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...the receipt and comforting the same. [Libraries.] Libraries are as the shrinen where all the relics wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification...in the old law did save, And such as yet once more imposed. In Oq>heuH!s theatre, all beast« and birds assembled ; and, forgetting their several appetites,...
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Bits of books, from old and modern authors, for railway travellers

Bits - Anthologies - 1847 - 88 pages
...All the earth doth worship thee!" Per rival Leigh. Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.—Lord Bacon. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. And touching the guiding of thy house, let thy hospitality...
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Observations on Sunday-school instruction: the substance of an address

John Gregg (bp. of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.) - 1847 - 92 pages
...mighty men. Here is embalmed the life-blood of the master-spirits of the world. In this their " relics full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." Here are engraven their deeds of deathless renown. Gentle as lambs, but bold as the * Lord Bacon. lions,...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]., Volume 3

Robert Kemp Philp - 408 pages
...a while will save us many an error. LIBRARIES arc as the shrines where all the relics of the undent saints full of true virtue, and that without delusion, or imposture, are preserved and reposed.— Bacon. EVERY one that flatters thee, Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind ; Taithful...
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Thoughts on the conduct of the understanding

Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...compelling every author to send a copy of his work, ' as an offering at the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints full of true virtue, and that without delusion and imposture, are preserved and reposed.' " If, possessing one hundred pounds, an officer of justice...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...government. II. THE BOOKS OF LEABSIXO 185 1. Libraries. They are as the shrines where all the relics 2. New editions of authors. 185 III. THE FEHSOHS OF Til K 1. Learned men should be countenanced. 2....
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...schools, for the receipt and comforting the raine. Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics ne native there be five strangers that sojourn in...; and without any distinction or mark of strangene [frorernment.] In Orphens's theatre, all beasts and birds assembled ; and, forgetting their several...
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