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On Some Defects in Public School Education: A Lecture Delivered at the Royal ... - Page 32
by Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 67 pages
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Tractate of Education

John Milton - 1895 - 120 pages
...work of a head filled by 25 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 5 untimely fruit : besides the ill habit which they get of wretched...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 8

David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 450 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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Public Schools and the Public Needs: Suggestions for the Reform of Our ...

George Gordon Coulton - 1901 - 344 pages
...orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading .... 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 Higher Study of English

Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1906 - 164 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.' Leaving the criticism of existing practices, Milton...
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Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 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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Milton and Liberty

William Morison - 1909 - 172 pages
...of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled 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." When youths passed from the school to the university...
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 pages
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention. xplores his solitary flight; sometimes He scours the right hand co out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit; besides the ill habit which they get of wretched...
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Models for Study

1911 - 202 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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Of Education: Areopagitica; The Commonwealth

John Milton - 1911 - 304 pages
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. 2 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 Journal, Volume 4

1915 - 714 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 again: Now, lastly, will be the time to read...
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