 For this I know, not only by reading of books in my study, but also by experience of life, abroad in the world, that those which be commonly the wisest, the best learned, and best men also, when they be old, were never commonly the quickest of wit when...  All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal - Page 5151888Full view - About this book
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...times, honester too, than many of these quick wits do by their learning. HOOER ASCHAM. THIS I know, not only by reading of books in my study, but also...commonly the quickest of wit, when they were young. The causes why, amongst other, which be many, that move me thus to think, be these few, which I will... | |
 | Roger Ascham - 1815 - 428 pages
...either of them is able to do now, as what either of tKem is likely to do hereafter. For this I know, not only by reading of books in my study, but also...commonly the quickest of wit when they were young. The causes why, amongst other, which be many, that move me thus to think, be these few, which I will... | |
 | Andrew Bell - 1815 - 486 pages
...this I know (says Ascham the learned preceptor of Queen Elizabeth) not only by reading of books in rny study, but also by experience of life abroad in the...that those, which be commonly the wisest, the best o 2 211 learned, and best men also, when they be old, were never commonly the quickest of wit when... | |
 | Henry Budd - 1827 - 1150 pages
...bookes in my studie, but also by experience of life abroade in the world, that those which be commonlie the wisest, the best learned, and best men also, when they be olde were never commonlie the quickest of witte, when they were yonge." These sentiments are so powerfully... | |
 | 1829 - 188 pages
...either of them is " able to do now, as what either of them is likely " to do hereafter. For this I know, not only by " reading of books in my study, but also by ex" perience of life abroad in the world, that those " which be commonly the wisest, the best learned,... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 pages
...what either of them is able to do, as what either of them is likely to do hereafter. For this I know, not only by reading of books in my study, but also...commonly the quickest of wit when they were young. Quick wits commonly be apt to take, unapt to keep. Some are more quick to enter speedily than able... | |
 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pages
...either of them is able to do now, as what either of them is likely to do hereafter. For this I know, not only by reading of books in my study, but also...commonly the quickest of wit when they were young. The causes why, amongst other, which be many, that move me thus to think, be these few which I will... | |
 | 1836 - 432 pages
...either of them is able to do now, as what either of them is likely to do hereafter. For this I know, not only by reading of books in my study, but also...commonly the quickest of wit when they were young. The causes why, amongst other, which be many, that move me thus to think, be these few which I will... | |
 | David Irving - 1836 - 432 pages
...now, as what either of them is likely to doe hereafter. For this I know, not only by reading of bookes in my study, but also by experience of life abroad...learned, and best men also, when they be old, were neuer commonly the quickest of wit when they were young. The causes why, amongest other, which be many,... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1836 - 774 pages
...what either of them is able to do, as what cither of them is likely to do hereafter. For this I know, not only by reading of books in my study, but also by exj)eriencc of life abroad in the world, that those which be commonly the wisest, the test learned,... | |
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