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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 Cyclopędia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...BBONSON ALCOTT— Table Talk. Bk. I. Learning-Books. Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. Л. BACON — Libraries. That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious...
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London Society, Volume 42

James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1882 - 780 pages
...the dining-room ; and it chanced that с T IBRARIES are as the shrines where all the relics of I _j saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. — LORD BACON. one of them, in carrying out a tray of glass, as he left the room stumbled and fell...
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The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 436 pages
...5. 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...glosses, more diligent annotations, and the like. 6. The works pertaining to the persons of learned men (besides the advancement and countenancing of...
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Works, Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 878 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*, are preserved und reposed ; secondly, new editions of authors, with more correct impressions, more faithful translations,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 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 *, are preserved und reposed ; secondly, new editions of authors, with more correct impressions, more faithful translations,...
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, Part 9

William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 288 pages
...philologically among its most important remains. The works touching books are two; first, libraries ; . . . secondly, new editions of authors, with more correct...impressions, more faithful translations, more profitable glotsett. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, IL 108. There's something In thy looks I cannot read ; [Prithee...
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Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs: Authors ...

Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...Addison. LIBRARIES. SHRINES. Libraries are the shrines where all the rel ics of the ancient saints, fullof true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. Bacon. USES OF. Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence mon, properly informed, might bring...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopędia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...and the titles in tarnished gold.— Williiiott. Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of saints full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. — Bacon. LICENSE. For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon,...
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The Evolution of Horticulture in New England

Daniel Denison Slade - Gardening - 1895 - 196 pages
...containing a good collection of publications are, as Bacon says, " the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." Such are essential to the individual who desires to keep up with the advance of an art, by comparing...
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...BRONSON ALCOTT — Table Talk. Bk. I. Learning-Books. Libraries arc as the shrines where all the relics enice. Act I. Sc. 2. L. eo. He was a man, take him...in all, I shall not look upon his like again. j. Ha jft. BACON — Libraries. That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious...
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