| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles which is commonly set before them, as...therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fita a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public,... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles, which is commonly set before them as...food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous i education, that which fits a man to perform... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...which is commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. And bow all... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...than we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast uf «ои thistles and brambles which is commonly set before...entertainment of their tenderest and most docile age. 1 call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fit« a man to perform justly, skilfully,... | |
| William D'Arcy Haley - 1855 - 190 pages
...about it ; and no wonder if that proves it possible that for the most part makes it so." — SOUTH. " I call, therefore, a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." — MILTON.... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...edge-tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs.—Bacon. 6. I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war—But here... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...edge-tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs.—Bacon. 6. I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war... .But here... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 368 pages
...were only a haling and dragging our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles which is commonly set before them, as...food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. " What ! have you been reading that muck all this while?" said a young girl to her friend,... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 pages
...we have now to haul and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles which is commonly set before them as...food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age.9 I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform... | |
| Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 pages
...definition of the term given by Milton, in his letter to Master Hartlib. "I call, therefore," says he, "a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform, justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." Anniversary... | |
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