 This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling of judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning, under what name soever it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed, the final end is to lead and draw us...  Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks - Page 5by Sir Philip Sidney - 1807Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 368 pages
...in neither of these anatomies he be commendable, I hope we shall receive a more favorable sentence. This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling...; the final end is, to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clay lodgings, can be capable of. This, according... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...conspicuous in those splendid orbs. — CICERO. This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, ennobling of judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly...directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection, as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clay-lodgings, can be capable of. Some give... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...conspicuous in those splendid orbs. CICERO. This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, ennobling ,o/ judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly...directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection, as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clay-lodgings, can be capable of. Some give... | |
 | 1840 - 528 pages
...remark upon a passage which ever seemed to us to bear a strong affinity to another in the Phaedo : — " This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling...; the final end is, to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls made worse, by their clay lodgings, can be capable of." Thus Sir... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1845 - 606 pages
...in neither of these anatomies he be commendable, I hope we shall receive a more favorable sentence. This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling...: the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clay lodgings, can be capable of: this, according... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1860 - 404 pages
...in neither of these anatomies he be commendable, I hope we shall receive a more favourable sentence. This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling...; the final end is, to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse x by their clay lodgings, can be capable of; this,... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...neither of these 25 anatomies he be condemnable, I hope we shall receive a more favourable sentence. This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling...judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learned, under what name soever it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed, the... | |
 | 1868 - 1038 pages
...cannot refrain from enriching this page with the eloquent passage. 'This purifying of wit,' says he, 'this enriching of memory, enabling of judgment, and...directed, the final end is, To lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clay lodgings, can be capable of.' This was... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...in neither of these anatomies he be commendable, I hope we shall receive a more favourable sentence. This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling...learning, under what name soever it come forth, or to what end soever it be directed, the final end is, to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...in neither of these anatomies he be commendable, I hope we shall receive a more favourable sentence. o part of their time was spent in dissipation. Even...persevering assiduity they pursued their studies, wo ; tho final end is, to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse... | |
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