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... children , and the hearers . * He had his own children , grand children , and great grand children , ordinarily at his table , sitting about him like olive branches . * * He was of spare and temperate diet , * * and above all things ...
... children , and the hearers . * He had his own children , grand children , and great grand children , ordinarily at his table , sitting about him like olive branches . * * He was of spare and temperate diet , * * and above all things ...
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... child that is still , silent , constant , and somewhat hard of wit , is either never chosen by the father to be made a scholar , or else when he cometh to the school , he is smally regarded , little looked unto ; he lacketh teaching ...
... child that is still , silent , constant , and somewhat hard of wit , is either never chosen by the father to be made a scholar , or else when he cometh to the school , he is smally regarded , little looked unto ; he lacketh teaching ...
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... children ; and therefore in the end they find more pleasure in their horses , than comfort in their children . " Instead , however , of giving his own opinion as to the true marks of promise in a child , he prefers reporting " the ...
... children ; and therefore in the end they find more pleasure in their horses , than comfort in their children . " Instead , however , of giving his own opinion as to the true marks of promise in a child , he prefers reporting " the ...
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... child should be iλórovos , that is , should have " a lust to labor , and a will to take pains ; for if a child have all the benefits of nature , with perfection of memory , love , life , and praise learning never so much ; yet if he be ...
... child should be iλórovos , that is , should have " a lust to labor , and a will to take pains ; for if a child have all the benefits of nature , with perfection of memory , love , life , and praise learning never so much ; yet if he be ...
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... child if he dance not well , and cherish him though he learn not well , ye shall have him unwilling to go to dance , and glad to go to his book ; knock him always when he draweth his shaft ill , and favor him again though he fault at ...
... child if he dance not well , and cherish him though he learn not well , ye shall have him unwilling to go to dance , and glad to go to his book ; knock him always when he draweth his shaft ill , and favor him again though he fault at ...
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Page 104 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 14 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 432 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu!
Page 109 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 428 - Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 65 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world...
Page 187 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 104 - ... for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 15 - A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has these two has little more to wish for, and he that wants either of them will be but little the better for anything else.
Page 405 - A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face.