 ... 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...  Pilgrimages to English Shrines - Página 237por Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1850Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Lyman Coleman - 1852 - 676 páginas
...the earliest period of Christianity, there were those who, like our divine Watts in modern times, " condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion adapted to the wants and capacities of children." The Christian fathers abundantly... | |
 | John Kitto - 1853 - 302 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, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, adapted to the wants and capacities of children ;" and these set to well known and... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1854 - 608 páginas
...— poet, logician and Christian teacher. We were in some degree elevated above the dense and heavy fog, for the heavens were clear and blue ; but all...whose walls hung the parting breath of this benevolent * Doctor Soiithey, in his 'Life,' says that lie composed rhyming lines for copy-books, containing moral... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 páginas
...the 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 600 páginas
...sometimes clear away, and then press its yellow folds more closely 398 RESIDENCE OF DR. ISAAC WATTS. round every object of interest. This was very provoking...whose walls hung the parting breath of this benevolent man might well be an object of the deepest interest to all who follow, however humbly, the faith of... | |
 | Isaac Watts, David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 514 páginas
...mentioning his prose and poetical compositions for children, Dr. Johnson observes with admiration ; — " He condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of iustruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn... | |
 | 1857 - 574 páginas
...the third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a vtiir; 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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 páginas
...which he has a primeval claim, and which is so freely awarded him by Dr. Johnson : — " For children, him, he poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1859 - 396 páginas
...moonlight—poet, logician and Christian teacher. We were in some degree elevated above the dense and heavy fog, for the heavens were clear and blue; but all...whose walls hung the parting breath of this benevolent man might well be an object of the deepest interest to all who follow, however humbly, the faith of... | |
 | 1861 - 596 páginas
...allowed the third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year. 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 capacities, from the dawn of reason... | |
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