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" ... with a tale, forsooth; he cometh unto you, with a tale, which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought... "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 156
by George Burnett - 1807
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take moat «holesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant...should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhuharbarum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their can than their mouth. So is...
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Pen and Pencil, Volume 1

1853 - 844 pages
...verities " of " this serious and earnest life of ours." " 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 any should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarI barum they should receive, would sooner...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...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. For even those hard-hearted evil men, who think virtue a school name, and know no other good but indulgere...
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Characters and Criticisms, Volume 2

William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 286 pages
...the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take moat wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have...taste ; which if one should begin to tell them the oame of the aloes or rheubarum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears, than...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...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. For even those hard-hearted evil men, who think virtue a school name, and know no other good but Indulgere...
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The Life and Times of Sir Philip Sidney

S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 328 pages
...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." " By these examples and reasons, I think it may be manifest, that the Poet, with that same hand of...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author ...

Philip Sidney - 1860 - 412 pages
...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...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth ; so it is in men ; (most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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The Seaboard and the Down; Or, My Parish in the South

John Wood Warter - 1860 - 526 pages
...Talboys. wholefome things, by hiding them in fuch other as have a pleafant tafte : which, if one mould begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarbarum they mould receive, would fooner take their phyfic at their ears than at their mouth." The firft ftory marked...
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The Seaboard and the Down; Or, My Parish in the South

John Wood Warter - 1860 - 530 pages
...Talboys. wholefome things, by hiding them in fuch other as have a pleafant tafte: which, if one fhould begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarbarum they mould receive, would fooner take their phyfic at their ears than at their mouth." The firft ftory marked...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...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...rhubarbarum they should receive, would sooner take thfiir physic at their ears than at their mouth : so is it in men ; (most of whom are childish in the...
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