 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 xxxviiby John Selden - 1856 - 170 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arts - 1988 - 140 pages
...are pure, not only meats and drinks, but all kinds of knowledge whether good or evil. ...Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest...serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forwarn, and to illustrate. (II, 511-12) Truth, then, is dependent upon evil; thus, Milton expresses... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - Study Aids - 1994 - 270 pages
...from unwholesome, and best books to a naughty mind are not unapplyable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest...herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a discteet 45 and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn and to... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2010 - 360 pages
...book as meat; the persistent substrate of the genetic can be felt in the formulations like "Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest...many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate" (2:512). For useful discussions of networks of imagery in the treatise, see Alan... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...unapplicable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction;0 but herein the difference is of bad books, that they...many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn and to illustrate. Whereof what better wimess can ye expect I should produce than one of your own now... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig - Study Aids - 2003 - 276 pages
...from unwholesome, and best books to a naughty mind are not unapplyable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest...difference is of bad books, that they to a discreet 45 and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn and to illustrate.... | |
 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 278 pages
...virtue. Indeed, even the most debased of books can motivate morality. As Milton avers: "Bad books ... to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate" (2:512-13). As he fleshes out this idea, Milton advises that each and every text... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 2005 - 248 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.... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 2006 - 78 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... | |
 | John McCormick, Mairi MacInnes - Political Science - 2006 - 400 pages
...unwholesome; and best books to a naughty9 mind are not unappliable to occasions of evill. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest...many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate. . . . I conceive therefore, that when God did enlarge the universall diet of mans... | |
 | Timothy Rosendale - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 18 pages
...itself or the authorial intention behind it. As Milton would argue in Areopagitica, even bad books "to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate" (Complete Poems, 727). he levels a charge of interpretive naivete (or stupidity)... | |
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