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" Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction ; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate. "
The Educator: Prize Essays on the Expediency and Means of Elevating the ... - Page 228
by Central Society of Education (London, England), John Lalor, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Higginson, James Simpson - 1839 - 535 pages
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Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate ...

Francis Blackburne - Education - 1780 - 408 pages
...not unappliable to occafions of evill. Bad meats will fcarce breed good nourifhment in the healthieft concoction ; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a difcreet and judicious Reader ferve in many refpccts to difcover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illuftrate....
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REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON.

Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...to occafions of evill. Bad meats will fcarce breed good nourifhment in the healthieft conception ; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a difcreet and judicious Reader ferve in many refpects to difcover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illuftrate....
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...not unapplicable to occafions of evil. Bad meats will fcarce breed good nourifhment in the healthiefl concoction ; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a difcreet and judicious reader ferve in many refpects to difcover. to confute, to forewarn, and to illuftrate....
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Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly ..., Volume 9

Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...scares hreed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction ; hut herein the difference is of had hooks, that they to a discreet and judicious reader serve...discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate. Whereof what hetter witness can ye expect I hoiilil produce, than one of your own now sitting in parliament,...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...stomach differ little or nothing from unwholesome; and best books. to a naughty mind are not unapplicable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed...discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate. 'Whereof what better witness can ye expect I should produce, than one of your own now sitting in parliament,...
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Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical ...

Francis Maseres - Canada - 1809 - 638 pages
...^inapplicable ti> occafions of evil. Bad meats will fcarce breed good nouriflnncnt in the heahhiefl concoction ; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a difcreet and judicious reader ferve in many ivfpecls to difcovcr, to confute, to forewarn, and to ifluftrale....
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The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...cannot defile, nor rt consequently the books, if the will and conscience " be not defiled. " Bad books serve in many respects to discover, '' to confute, to forewarn and to illustrate. Whereof, " what belter witness can we expect I should pro•" duce, than one of your own, now sitting...
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The speeches of the hon. Thomas Erskine ... when at the Bar, on ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...cannot defile, nor " couscquently the books, if the will and conscience " be not defiled. " Bad books serve in many respects to discover', '* to confute, to forewarn and to illustrate. "Whereof, " what better witness can we expect I should pro' ** duce, than one of your own, now sitting...
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The Lives of John Selden, Esq., and Archbishop Usher: With Notices of the ...

John Aikin - Great Britain - 1812 - 466 pages
...entitled " Areopagitica," addressed to the parliament, he has the following sentence : " Bad meals will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest...many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, to illustrate. Whereof what better witness can ye expect I should produce than one of your own now...
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The lives of J. Selden ... and abp. Usher

John Aikin - 1812 - 462 pages
...entitled " Areopagitica," addressed to the parliament, he has the following sentence : " Bad meals will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest...many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, to illustrate. Whereof what better witness can ye expect 1 should produce than one of your own now...
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