 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 Seiten
...knowledge, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powers, when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than...he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child." How full of the overflowings of a generous and true nature are the following sentiments upon presents... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 546 Seiten
...knowledge, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powers, when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than...he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child." How full of the overflowings of a generous and true nature are the following sentiments upon presents... | |
 | 1839 - 694 Seiten
...child in the shape of knowledge, and his empty noddle must be filled with conceit of his own powers when he has learnt that a horse is an animal, and...like ; instead of that beautiful interest in wild talcs, which made the child a man, while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child.... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 Seiten
...of knowledge, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like : instead of thai beautiful interest in wild tales which made the child a man, while all the time he suspected himself... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 Seiten
...child in the shape of knowledge, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powere but withoul knowledge, genius, thought, truth, or...for the manufactured commodity : — " Conservatism And there follows Lamb's argumentum ad hominem S. TC, which, remembering what manner of man STC was,... | |
 | 1863 - 636 Seiten
...must be turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and that Billy is better than a horse, and such like, instead...child a man, while all the time he suspected himself no bigger than a child. Science has succeeded to poetry no less in the little walks of children than... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1863 - 608 Seiten
...must be turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and that Billy is better than a horse, and such like, instead...child a man, while all the time he suspected himself no bigger than a child. Science has succeeded to poetry no less in the little walks of children than... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 Seiten
...child in the shape of knowledge, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learnt, that a horse is an animal, and...tales, which made the child a man, while all the time lie suspected himself to be no bigger than a child. Science has succeeded to poetry no less in the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Giles Jones, Griffith Jones, John Newbery - 1881 - 200 Seiten
...an ' animal, and Billy is better than a horfe, ' and fuch like, inftead of that beautiful ' intereft in wild tales, which made the ' child a man, while all the time he 1 fufpected himfelf to be no bigger than a. ' child. Science has fucceeded to poetry 1 no lefs in the... | |
 | Two Shoes (goody.) - 1881 - 218 Seiten
...' animal, and Billy is better than a horfe, • and fuch like, inftead of that beautiful ' intereft in wild tales, which made the ' child a man, while all the time he ' fufpected himfelf to be no bigger than a ' child. Science has fucceeded to poetry ' no lefs in the... | |
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Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. Barbauld's books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the shape of knowledge; and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learnt that a horse is an animal, and Billy is... 
