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" ... forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to... "
On Some Defects in Public School Education: A Lecture Delivered at the Royal ... - Page 28
by Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 67 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...final work of a head titled by lung reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. , he would pass over that that he intended most : and go forth and flowing out of tbe поде, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides the ill habit which they get...
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John Milton: A Biography

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit. * * * * " And for the usual method of teaching...
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The Philosophical Works of John Locke, Volume 1

John Locke - 1854 - 560 pages
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose or the plucking of untimely fruit " prejudice to itself, and then it may go on roundly....
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 2

Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 pages
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention.7 These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides all the ill habit which they get of wretched...
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Treasures from the Prose Writings of John Milton

John Milton - 1866 - 520 pages
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit. Besides the ill habit which they get of wretched...
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The Cornell Era, Volume 38

1905 - 358 pages
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit.' " Fortunately at Cornell we are beginning to react...
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Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the ..., Volume 5

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...exaction," said Milton, the greatest of all our Latin versifiers, no less than one of our greatest mem : " these are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings,...Locke ; " it is a sort of Egyptian tyranny," and "if ho have no poetic taste 'tis the most unreasonable thing in the world to torment him and waste his...
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Typical Selections from the Best English Authors: With Introductory Notices

English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit: besides the ill habit which they get of wretched...
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political ..., Volume 3

David Masson - 1873 - 754 pages
...final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit : besides the ill habit which they get of wretched...
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English Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher in English Literature

Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 pages
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention.' These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit; besides all the ill hahit which they get of wretched...
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