 | Edwin Francis Hatfield - 1884 - 744 páginas
...languages, and are known and loved throughout the world. " For children," says Dr. Samuel Johnson, " he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher,...devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason, through its gradations of advance in the morning of... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 378 páginas
...the earliest period of Christianity, there were those who, like our divine Watts in modern times, ' condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion adapted to the wants and capacities of children.' " The purpose of these early Christian parents, as... | |
 | 1887 - 456 páginas
...modes of thought unite in expressing their admiration. "For children," writes Dr. Johnson, " "Watts condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion." More justly—and without any suggestion that Watts condescended to a task like this—Richard Cecil... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 páginas
...friend, he allowed the third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year ; and for children, he condescended to lay aside the scholar,...devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life.... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1903 - 500 páginas
...community. ' For children,' says Dr. Johnson, ' he condescended to lay aside the philosopher, the scholar, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason to its gradation of advance in the morning of life. Every... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 páginas
...he allowed the third part of his annual revenue 7, though the whole was not a hundred a year ; and for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar,...philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion 8 and systems 1 Johnson perhaps avoids the term effect upon reasonable minds. It minister, which he... | |
 | Algernon Graves - 1906 - 536 páginas
...mine so black and grim! etc." — Hood. 1853- 499 Dr. Watts visiting some of his little friends. " For children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and wit." — Dr. Johnson. 1854. 562 Home revisited. "As a long parted mother with her child Plays fondly... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 páginas
...had just finished whole was not a hundred a year ; and for CO H O II CQ EH H O -3 <!l DQ <B 5 ? the children he condescended to lay aside the scholar,...devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason, through its gradations of advance in the morning of... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1911 - 750 páginas
...beautiful effusions. Dr. Johnson's striking eulogy should not be withheld : "For children," he remarks, "he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher,...devotion and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life.... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1911 - 750 páginas
...beautiful effusions. Dr. Johnson's striking eulogy should not be withheld: "For children," he remarks, "he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher,...devotion and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life.... | |
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... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason, through its gradations of advance in... 
