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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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ENGLISH ESSAYS

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY TO MACAULAY - 1910 - 474 pages
...brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as to have a pleasant taste,—which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarb they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth. So is...
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The Art of the Story-teller

Marie L. Shedlock - 1915 - 320 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." MARIE L. SHEDLOCK, London. PART I THE ART OF THE STORY-TELLER CHAPTER I THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE STORY...
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Studies in Language, Literature and Criticism

1917 - 494 pages
...means of popular education can hardly be over-estimated. "Even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste So it is in men, most of which are childish in the best things, till they be cradled in their graves,...
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Museum Work: Including the Proceedings of the American Association ..., Volume 3

1921 - 294 pages
...instruct, though in no tedious way; as Sir Philip Sydney says, "Even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste." These stories of kings, queens, brave knights, painters, sculptors, great builders, legends which have...
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More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago: Stories of the People of Many Lands ...

Anna Curtis Chandler - 1920 - 200 pages
...quote from Sir Philip Sydney's " Defense of Poesie," — "even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste." There can be no barrier between the story-teller and the audience, for just as the story-teller of...
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Books and Ideals: An Anthology

Edmund Kemper Broadus - 1921 - 228 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...which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of aloes or rhubarb they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth....
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English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries ...

Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 pages
...other as have a pleasant taste : which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of aloes or rhubarb they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth. So is it in men (most of which are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney: The defence of poesie. Political ...

Sir Philip Sidney - 1923 - 468 pages
...intend the winning of the minde from wickednes to vertue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasaunt taste : which if one should begin to tell them the nature of the Alloes or Rhabarbarum they...
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Safeguarding Children's Nerves: A Handbook of Mental Hygiene

James Joseph Walsh, John Ambrose Foote - 1924 - 292 pages
...HANNAH MORE — Belshassar, Pt. II. * * * * ". . . . the childe is often brought to take most wholsom things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant...which if one should begin to tell them the nature of aloes or rhubarb they should receive, woulde sooner take their phisicke at their eares than at their...
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The Common Reader, Volume 1

Virginia Woolf - 1925 - 348 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 is it in men (most of which are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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