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" Peter, kill and eat, leaving the choice to each man's discretion. Wholesome meats, to a vitiated stomach, differ little or nothing .from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed... "
Table-talk of John Selden - Page xxxvii
by John Selden - 1856 - 170 pages
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...unwholesome; and best Books to a naughty mind are not {mapplicable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest...many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.—Milton on unlicensed Printing. DCCCLXXVII. Hail, Independence—by true reason...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...unwholesome; and best Books to a naughty mind are not (inapplicable to occasions of evil. Bad mi-ills will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction; but herein the difference is of bad bnoks, that they to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute,...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...unwholesome ; and best books to a naughty mind are not unapplicable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest...many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate. Whereof what belter witness can ye expect I should produce, than one of your own...
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Select Prose Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...unwholesome ; and best books to a naughty mind are not unapplicable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest...many respects to discover, to confute', to forewarn, and to illustrate. (31) Whereof what better witness can ye expect I should produce, (3') On this point,...
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The Educator: Prize Essays on the Expediency and Means of Elevating the ...

Central Society of Education (London, England), John Lalor, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Higginson, James Simpson - Educators - 1839 - 558 pages
...unwholesome ; and best books, to a naughty mind are not (inapplicable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest...many respects, to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate." Thus far, Milton. 162. The same eloquent defender of liberty, in all allowable...
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Tracts for the people, designed to vindicate religious and Christian liberty

Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
....from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest...many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate. Whereof what better witness can ye expect I should produce, than one of your own...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unapplicable to occasions of '•¡1. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction ; but herein the difference i« of bad books, that they to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover,...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With an Introductory Review, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction ; but hergjn the difference is of bad books^Jhamhey to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many, .respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and_ to illustrate. Whereof what better witness can ye expect I should produce, than one of your own...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...naughty mind are not unapplieable to occasions of ffil. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment и heart gan melt in great compassion, And drizzling...field,' Quoth she, 'his princely puissance doth abate, A and to illustrate. * * Good Md evil, we know, in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...unwholesome ; and best books to a naughty mind are not unapplicable to occasions of eril. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction ; but herein the difference is of bail books, that they to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute,...
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