... 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
| Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 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...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... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton - 1906 - 416 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...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... | |
| Henry Caldwell Cook - 1917 - 420 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...like a cock-boat to a whale, only to play withal.— JEREMY TAYLOR. THERE is a school -lesson which is able to hold children from other play and old men... | |
| Henry Caldwell Cook - 1919 - 424 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.—JEREMY TAYLOR. THERE is a school-lesson which is able to hold children from other play and... | |
| Jeremy Taylor - 1990 - 548 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...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... | |
| Thomas St Nicholas - 2002 - 552 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 onely to play withalP (Taylor, Holy Dying, II, 33). 23-25 The best ... them] Like the more sinister... | |
| Jeremy Taylor - 2007 - 549 pagina’s
...needs them, but because bis understanding is no bigger, and little images of things are laid before Mm, like a cock-boat to a whale, only to play withal ;...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... | |
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