 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 páginas
...third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year ; and for children, he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 páginas
...finished whole was not a hundred a year ; and for CO H O II CQ EH H O -3 <!l DQ <B 5 ? the children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason, through... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1911 - 750 páginas
...beautiful effusions. Dr. Johnson's striking eulogy should not be withheld : "For children," he remarks, "he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through... | |
 | 1846 - 662 páginas
...From the earliest period of Christian antiquity there were authors who, like Watts in modern times, condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher,...wit, to write little poems of devotion, adapted to the wants and capacities of children ; and these, set to well-known and favourite airs, were sung by... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1914 - 382 páginas
...pleasure."2 Subsequently Watts wrote a simple Catechism for children. " For them," says Johnson, " he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 426 páginas
...pleased." Taking further notice of the divine's preoccupation with childhood, Johnson writes that Watts "condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - 1978 - 124 páginas
...truth of the Gospel and duties of morality to the child's mind. Dr. Johnson remarked, "For children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 2001 - 580 páginas
...higher branches of literature, to converse with the lisping infant. " For children (says Dr. Johnson) he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its... | |
 | 1825 - 498 páginas
...of the children's friend. Well did he merit the eulogium bestowed by Dr. Johnson. 'For children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through... | |
 | 1841 - 768 páginas
...high commendation, which even his bigotry could not withhold from a Dissenter, — that he knew how " to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion and systems of instruction adapted to the wants and capacities of children :" and he holds up to veneration... | |
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... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in... 
