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The Clergy is a Copy-book; their Life is the Paper, whereof some is purer, some courser; their Doctrine is the Copies, some written in a plain hand,
Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son.
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- Title
- Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son.
- Author
- Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
- Publication
- London :: printed for W. Chandeler, in the Pourcy; and Tho. Scott, in Cranbone-Street, Leicester-Fields,
- 1698.
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"Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56847.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.
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others in a flourishing hand, some in a Text hand, some in a Roman hand, others in a Court hand, others in a Bastard Ro∣man. If the choice be in thy power, choose a Book that hath the finest Paper; let it not be too straight nor too loosely bound, but easie to lye open to every Eye: Follow not every Copy, lest thou be good at none; among them all choose one that shall be most legible and useful, and fullest of just Writing: But if the Paper chance to have a Blot, remem∣ber that Blot is no part of the Copy.