Omnibus & singulis. Affording matter profitable for all men, necessarie for euery man; alluding to a fathers aduice or last will to his sonne. Now published for the vse of all men, and particularly of those that doe inhabit Great Brittaine and Ireland.
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Omnibus & singulis. Affording matter profitable for all men, necessarie for euery man; alluding to a fathers aduice or last will to his sonne. Now published for the vse of all men, and particularly of those that doe inhabit Great Brittaine and Ireland.
Author
Scot, Patrick.
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London :: Printed by William Stansby,
1619.
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Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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SECT. XXVII.
THe chiefe vse of Bookes, is to increase knowledge, cōfirme iudgement, to com∣pare times past with the pre∣sent; to draw profit from both for the future, and to bring out the dead speaking with the liuing. Bookes are the most free Reproouers of Vice, the most trustie and comfortable Friends, and faithfull Companions that are, euer readie with good counsell, when it is either re∣quired or needfull; they are the onely Physicke to purge the naturall dulnesse of our home-bred ignorance, and weake capacitie.
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In reading of Bookes it is better (as in the vse of Friends) to conuerse serious∣ly with few, then to wander amongst many without pro∣fit.
Make choyce of the besty 1.1 Authors that write vpon the subiect you most affect, or is most necessary for you; (euer reiecting all such as are either repugnant to Godli∣nesse or good Manners) reade them with diligence, not in parcels (as many vn∣profitably doe) or slightly, and then cast them aside: but pervse them with dili∣gent obseruation orderly, from beginning to end; ta∣king a strict account of your selfe, of those things you reade: so shall your labours (by exercise & daily increase
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of your knowledge) at last produce the desired fruit of your studies.
Notes
y 1.1
Fastidientis stomachi est multa degusta∣re, Plut. Vt cibos dimit∣tis quo facilius digerantur, ita lectio non cruda sed multa itera∣tione mollita, memoriae imita∣tioni{que} tradatur, nec per partes scrutāda omnia, sed perlectus li∣ber vti{que} resu∣mendus, Quint. instit. Orat. lib. 11. cap. 2.