God Almighty first planted a garden.[167:4]
Of Gardens.
And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Of Gardens.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Of Studies.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Of Studies.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.