... 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
| Philip Doddridge - 1831 - 580 páginas
...lived in the family of his friend, he allowed the third part of his annual revenue ; 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... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1834 - 174 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... | |
| Thomas Russell Sullivan, David Reed - 1836 - 352 páginas
...benefit of youth, still remain pre-eminent. Of him Dr Johnson very justly remarks, that ' 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 páginas
...allowed the third port of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year; and for children te his projects, there can be no settlement ; if every murmurer at poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 páginas
...eloquently eulogized that voluntary descent from the dignity of science, which induced this excellent man to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems for children, and systems of instruction adapted to their capacities, from the dawn of reason,... | |
| 1844 - 582 páginas
...unexamined ; he has taught the art of reasoning and the science of the stars." And again, " 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 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... | |
| George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 páginas
...his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year: and for children he condescended te combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn... | |
| 1841 - 584 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... | |
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