 ... of flies and dogs, shells and play, horses and liberty : but when he is strong enough to enter into arts and little institutions, he is at first entertained with trifles and impertinent things, not because he needs them, but because his understanding...  The treasury of wit and anecdote - Pagina 263door The treasury of wit and anecdote - 1842Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Timbs - 1863 - 280 pagina’s
...entertained with trifles and impertinent things, not because he needs them, but because his understanding is no bigger, and little images of things are laid...withal : but before a man comes to be wise, he is half-dead with gouts and consumption, with catarrhs and aches, with sore eyes and a worn-out body.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1869 - 268 pagina’s
...entertained with triflesand impertinent things, not because he needs them, but because his understanding is no bigger, and little images of things are laid...withal ; but before a man comes to be wise, he is half-dead with gouts and consumptions, with catarrhs and aches, with sore eyes and a worn-out body.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1871 - 264 pagina’s
...them, but because his understanding is no bigger, and little images of things are laid before dim, like a cock-boat to a whale, only to play withal ; but before a man comes to be wise, he is half-dead with gouts and consumptions, with catarrhs and aches, with sore eyes and a worn-out body.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 pagina’s
...entertained with trifles and impertinent things, not because he needs them, but because his understanding is no bigger, and little images of things are laid...man comes to be wise, he is half dead with gouts and consumption, with catarrhs and aches, with sore eyes and a worn-out body. So that, if we must not reckon... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 pagina’s
...only to play withal : but before a man comes to be wise, he is half dead with gouts and consumption, with catarrhs and aches, with sore eyes and a worn-out body. So that, if we must not reckon the life of a man but by the accounts of his reason, he is long before his soul... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 pagina’s
...entertained with trifles and impertinent things, not because he needs them, hut because his understanding is no bigger ; and little images of things are laid before him, like a cock -boat to a whale, only to play withal : but before a man comes to be wise, he is half dead with... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pagina’s
...entertained with trifles and impertinent things, not because he needs them, but because his understanding is no bigger, and little images of things are laid before him, like a cock -boat to a whale, only to play withal: but, before a man comes to be wise, he is half dead with... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pagina’s
...bocause his understanding is no bigger, and little images of things are laid before him, like a cock-bout to a whale, only to play withal : but, before a man comes to bo wise, he is half dead with gouts iincf consumptions, with catarrhs and aches, with sore eyes and... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 pagina’s
...entertained with trifles and impertinent things, not because he needs them, but because his understanding is no bigger ; and little images of things are laid...to play withal : but before a man comes to be wise, ho is half dead with gouts and consumption, with catarrhs and aches, with sore eyes and worn-out body.... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pagina’s
...has plainly told." His fondness for all kinds of details is seen in such a sentence as this : — " Before a man comes to be wise, he is half dead with gout and consumption, with catarrhs and aches, with sore eyes and worn out body." His power of accumulating... | |
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