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" ... forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to... "
Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal ... - Page 34
by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869
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The Parents' Friend; Or Extracts from the Principal Works on ..., Volume 2

1803 - 456 pages
...work of a head well filled by long reading, and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit: besides, the ill liabit which they get of wretched...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 6

1824 - 604 pages
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides the ill habit which they get of wrelched...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...work of a head filled by ' long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious in' vention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, ' like blood flowing out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely ' fruit ; besides the ill habit which they get...
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Precept and example, in the instructive letters of eminent men to their ...

Precept - 1825 - 302 pages
...final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit : besides the ill habit which they get <of wretched...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit; besides the ill habit which they get of wretched...
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An Essay on a System of Classical Instruction: Combining the Methods of ...

1829 - 188 pages
...work of a head filled, by " long reading and observing, with elegant maxims " and copious invention. These are not matters " to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out " of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit." F He then notices, like Ascharn, " the ill habit...
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The Quarterly Journal of Education, Volume 8

1834 - 408 pages
...final work of a head rilled by long reading and observing-, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides, the ill-habit which they get of barbarizing...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...work of a head filled by ' long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious in' vention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, ' like blood flowing out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely ' fruit ; besides the ill habit which they get...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit; besides the ill habit which they get of wretched...
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Select Prose Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit. Besides the ill habit which they get of wretched...
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