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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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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 4

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 pages
...are as the shrines wherein all the relics of the ancient saints full of true virtue are preserved. Secondly, new editions of authors, with more correct...impressions, more faithful translations, more profitable commentaries, more diligent annotations, and the like. The works pertaining to the persons of the learned...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 7

Henry Barnard - Education - 1859 - 750 pages
...fellow-countryman of our Pil£rin: Fathers — that " libraries are as the shrines where all the relies of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." But Cicero, methinks, did better justice to the theme. We are told that, when that illustrious orator...
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The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish

Horace Smith - English wit and humor - 1859 - 282 pages
...the dead who will never die. " Libraries," says Lord Bacon, " are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." "In the library of the world," says Champfort, "men have hitherto been ranged according to the form,...
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American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 7

Education - 1859 - 828 pages
...fellow-countryman of our Pilgrim Fathers — that " libraries are as the shrines where all the relies of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." But Cicero, methinks, did better justice to the theme. \Ve are told that, when that illustrious orator...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...government. II. TBS BOOKS 07 LEARXIlfO 18 1. Libraries. They are as the shrines where all the relict of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are pre served and reposed. 2. New editions of authors. <~~ III. THI FEHSOSS Ot Till II I II MI' 18 1 ....
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The Works, Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...wind.1] 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 2, are preserved and reposed ; secondly, new editions of authors, with more correct impressions, more...
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The Works, Volume 4

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pages
...are as the shrines wherein all the relics of the ancient saints full of true virtue are preserved. Secondly, new editions of. authors, with more correct...impressions, more faithful translations, more profitable commentaries, more diligent annotations, and the like. The works pertaining to the persons of the learned...
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Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable ..., Volumes 36-37

Great Britain - 1854 - 562 pages
...families, our tempers ; and in society, our tongues. Libraries are as shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisitions; and it is as absurd to expect them without...
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Permanent Documents of the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate ..., Volume 3

Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education - Church and education - 1860 - 704 pages
...community—its library a shrine where, as my Lord Bacon says, " all the relics of the ancient saints, lull of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed" —its chapel a Christian sanctuary, with arches ever resonant of spiritual worship, and altars ever...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 pages
...wind.1] 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 s, are preserved and reposed ; secondly, new editions of authors, with more correct impressions, more...
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