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" Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men ; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. "
A History of the Earth and Animated Nature ...: With Numerous Notes from the ... - Page 12
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1857
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Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator"

Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 344 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. To use an instance that comes often under observation : With what caution does the hen provide herself...
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Orthophony: Or, The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution

1870 - 314 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. — There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature, than this instinct in animals,...
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The Christian life, a book of Bible helps and counsels for every day ...

Christian life - 1874 - 446 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. — "Spectator." It ii jog to tf)e juSt to tto juttgnmtt ; but obStruttion Sljiill be to tlje toorbnrS...
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Selections from Addison's Papers Contributed to the Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. To use an instance that comes often under observation: With what caution does the hen provide herself...
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Selections from Addison's papers contributed to the Spectator, ed. by T. Arnold

Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. To use an instance that comes often under observation : With what caution does the hen provide herself...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. ADDISON: Spectator, No. 120. When a hen has laid her eggs so that she can cover them, what care does...
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An Introduction to the Study of English Literature;: Comprising ...

Henry Noble Day - 1877 - 564 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. To use an instance that comes often under observation. With what caution does the hen provide herself...
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Readings from the Spectator. With notes

Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. To use an instance that comes often under observation. 14. With what caution does the hen provide herself...
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Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From the Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1890 - 220 pages
...their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow • compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. To use an ; instance that comes often under observation. With what caution does the hen provide herself...
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The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers

Joseph Addison - 1893 - 204 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. To use an instance that comes often under observation. With what caution does the hen provide herself...
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