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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... "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 156
by George Burnett - 1807
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American Monthly Review, Volume 1

Sidney Willard - American literature - 1832 - 560 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth : so is it in men ; (most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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Christian Reformer, Volume 1

1886 - 400 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth ; so it is in men (most of them are childish till they be cradled in their graves),...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1842 - 648 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth : so is it in men (most of them are childish in their best things till they be cradled...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth ; so is it in men, (most of which are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even aa the child is often brought to take dy sight : For truth has such a face and such a mien,...* * The Panther, sure the noblest next the Hind, rhubarbarura they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their can than their mouth. So...
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Essays Upon Authors and Books

William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1849 - 342 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other...taste; which if one should begin to tell them the name of the aloes or rheubarum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears, than...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take fin ear* than their mouth. So is it in men (most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other...they should receive, would sooner take their physic 3t their ears than their mouth. So is it in men, (most of whom are childish in the best things, till...
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Appendicia Et Pertinentiae: Or, Parochial Fragments Relating to the Parish ...

John Wood Warter - Sussex (England) - 1853 - 390 pages
...delectare poetse, Aut simul et jucunda et idonea dicere vitse." as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other...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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Appendicia Et Pertinentiae; Or, Parochial Fragments Relating to the Parish ...

John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...delectare poetso, Aut simul et jucunda et idonea dicere vibe." as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other...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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