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" ... with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought... "
English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature - Page 135
by Henry Morley - 1892
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...corner ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome...would sooner take their physic at their ears than /their mouth. So is it in men (most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled in...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...corner ; and pretending no more, doth in? tend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome...would sooner take their physic at their ears than their mouth. So is it in men (most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled in...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...the winning of the mind from wickedness to •virtue ; even as the child is often brought to tak« most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other...would sooner take their physic at their ears than their mouth. So is it in men (most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled in...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...corner ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome...would sooner take their physic at their ears than their mouth. So is it in men (most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled in...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...corner ; and pretending no more, doth in-> tend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome...other as have a pleasant taste : which if one should begirt to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarr barum they should receive, would sooner take...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 378 pages
...quite ravish 'd, — So sweet and voluble was his discourse, &c." mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome...hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste." — " For even those hard-hearted evil men, who think virtue a school name, and know no other good...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...So sweet and voluble was his discourse, &c." VOL. X. PART I. E mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome...hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste." — " For even those hard-hearted evil men, who think virtue a school name, and know no other good...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...corner ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome...should begin to tell them the nature of the Aloes or Rhabarbarum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth ;...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...So sweet and voluble was his discourse, &c." VOL. X. PART I. E mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome...hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste." — " For even those hard-hearted evil men, who think virtue a school name, and know no other good...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue; even as the child is most often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste.— Sir P. Sidney's Defence of Poesy. CCCCXXXIII. Frenzy does not become a slighter distemper on account...
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