 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...colour them, but not much to amend them ; like an ill mower, that mows on still and never whets his scythe : whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise,...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... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...colour them, but not much to amend them ; like an ill mower, that mows on still and never whets his scythe. Whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise,...amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. It was the opinion of Bacon, that knowledge was the same as power. His own life unfortunately showed... | |
 | Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew) - 1862 - 1020 pages
...colour them, but not much to amend them ; like an ill mower, that mows on still and never whets his scythe ; whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise,...of his mind with the use and employment thereof." The uses and the influence of true learning, the power which flows from its -sincere cultivation, are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Great Britain - 1862 - 416 pages
...that mows on still and never whets his scythe : whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise, for he doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof." — iii. p. 315. Compare also the letter to Savill (vii. p. 98) : "It would teach men to bend themselves... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophers - 1862 - 532 pages
...that mows on still and never whets his scythe : whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise, for he doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof." — iii. p. 315. Compare also the letter to Savill (vii. p. 98) : "It would teach men to bend themselves... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1862 - 448 pages
...that mows on still and never whets his scythe : whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise, for he doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the >ose and employment thereof."—iii. p. 315. Compare also the letter to Savill (vii. p. 98): " It would... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...and color them, but not much to amend them: like an ill mower, that mows on still and never whets his scythe. Whereas, with the learned man it fares otherwise,...amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...colour them, but not much to amend them ; like an ill mower, that mows on still and never whets his scythe : whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise,...his mind with the use and employment thereof. Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that veritas and bonit.as differ but as the seal and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...color them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mower, that mows on still and never whets his scythe. Whereas, with the learned man it fares otherwise,...amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in... | |
 | Josiah Miller - Bible - 1870 - 272 pages
...colour them, but not much to amend them; like an ill mower, that mows on still, and never whets his scythe: whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise,...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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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... 
