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 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 páginas
...third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a-ycar ; and for children lie 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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1866 - 432 páginas
...cast, and in regard to his hymns. Dr. Johnson has pronounced this high eulogium, ' That for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit to write little poems, systems of instruction adapted to their wants and capacities.' Dr. Watts died on 25th November,... | |
 | 1875 - 652 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 through... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1868 - 384 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... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1870 - 1154 páginas
...gleaned so much from the Book. From the earliest period of Christian antiquity there were authors who condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit to write poems commemorative of Biblical incidents suited to the capacities of the young, and thoroughly well... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1871 - 684 páginas
...attractive type, many of them possess high merit. As Dr. Johnson said of their author, "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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1871 - 836 páginas
...Divine Songs, Latine redditorum, Auctore EC Kemp, AM, 1848. See Lon. Athen., 1818. 1328. " For children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poem« of devution, and systems of instruction adapted to their wants and capacitive from the dawn... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1871 - 832 páginas
...Songs, Latine redditorum, Auctoro KC Kemp, AM, 1848. See Lon. Athen.. 1848. 132Я. " For children lie condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and system« of instruction adapted to their wnnts anil eapndtien from the dawn... | |
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