 And, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue: even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste; which, if one should begin to tell them the...  Essays Upon Authors and Books - Page 69by William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pages
...have a pleasant taste ; which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes of rhubarbarum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than their mouth. So is it in men (most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1867 - 606 pages
...taste ; which, if one tell them the nature of the aloes and the rhubarbarum they should receive, they would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth.'* Our general position, then, is that there is a fair, wise moral lying hidden in sound, healthy fiction,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pages
...have a pleasant taste ; which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarbarum they should receive, would sooner take their physic...ears than at their mouth : so is it in men (most of whom are childish in the best things till they be cradled in their graves) ; glad they will be to hear... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 pages
...have a pleasant taste ; which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarbarum they should receive, would sooner take their physic...ears than at their mouth : so is it in men (most of whom are childish in the best things till they be cradled in their graves) ; glad they will be to hear... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...receive, would sooner take their physic at their cars than their mouth. So is it in men — most of whom solemn and touching sonnets : Sonnet on his Deceased Wife. Cyrus, Л-Jieas ; and hearing them, must needs hear the right description of wisdom, valour, and justice... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...have a pleasant taste ; which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarbarum s, make many, more beastly than beasts, begin to it is in men (most of them are childish in the best things, till they be cradled in their graves) ;... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...wholesome things, by hiding them in such others as have a pleasant taste. So is it in men (most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled in their graves); glad will they be to hear the tales of Hercules, Achilles, Cyrus, JEneas; and hearing them, must needs hear... | |
 | Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...have a pleasant taste, which if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarbarum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than their mouth. So is it in men, most of whom are childish in the best things till they be cradled in... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste. So is it in men, — most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...they will be to hear the tales of Hercules, Achilles, Cyrus, ^Bneas; and hearing them, must jieeds hear the right description of wisdom, valour, and justice;... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 pages
...nature of Aloes or Rubarb they shoulde receive, woulde sooner take their Phisicke at their eares theni at their mouth. So is it in men, (most of which are childish in the best things till they bee cradled in their graves) glad they will be to heare the talcs of Hercules, Achilles, Cyrus, and... | |
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