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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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Aphorisms, maxims, &c., for learners, selected and arranged by R. Potts

Robert Potts - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1875 - 208 pages
...unwholesome ; and the 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. — John Milton. 511. There is a debt due to those who come after ns, and it is...
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The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1875 - 560 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...difference is of bad books, that they to a discreet arid judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.*...
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The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose Writings

John Milton - 1876 - 506 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 Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably...
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The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose Writings

John Milton - 1876 - 506 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 Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not uuappliable to occasions of evil. Bad meats [ W | q_4z m } -Y <k 6 ` wo ְ z ̣ /^ Ջ{ y{... S j ۧ' 8l W : 9 g ] A F 2% VG: $h2z/= @ P $ "CA @ ( servo in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate. Whereof what better...
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Masterpieces in English Literature: And Lessons in the English ..., Volume 1

Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 462 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 better witness can ye expect I should produce, than one of your own...
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Plain Living and High Thinking; Or, Practical Self-culture: Moral, Mental ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - Life skills - 1880 - 394 pages
...unapplicable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest connection ; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they...many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate." Milton's argument may be accepted so far as it is designed to prevent or limit...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evil. Bad meats and to illustrate. . . . Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world grow up together almost...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scar« breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction;...herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a di*crwt and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate....
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Selected prose writings, with an intr. essay by E. Myers

John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1884 - 304 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 better witness can ye expect I should produce, than one of your own...
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