 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...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 to tak« most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste : which if one should... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied \vith, or prepared for. the well enchanting skill of music...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... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...younger hearings were quite ravish 'd, — So sweet and voluble was his discourse, &c." VOL. X. PART I. E mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child...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... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 378 pages
...tale, * And younger hearings were quite ravish 'd, — So sweet and voluble was his discourse, &c." mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child...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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...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 ;... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...younger hearings were quite ravish'd,— So sweet and voluble was his discourse, &c." VOL. X. PART I. E mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child...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... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner ; and pretenling no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often hrought to take most wholesome things, hy hiding .them in such other as have a pleat-int taste." —... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...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 most often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste.—Sir... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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 most often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste.—... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...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...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth : so is it in men ; (most of whom ore childish in the best things, till they be cradled... | |
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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... 
