... good apprehension that makes him incapable of knowing what his teacher means. A brisk imagination very often may suggest an error, which a lad could not have fallen into, if he had been as heavy in conjecturing as his master in explaining. But there... The Spectator - Pagina 551856Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1794 - 450 pagina’s
...may suggest an error, which a lad could not have fallen into, if he had been as heavy in conjecturing as his master in explaining. But there is no mercy...them. A great or good mind must necessarily be the worse for such indignities ; and it is a sad change, to lose of its virtue for the improvement of its... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1801 - 338 pagina’s
...could not have fallen into, il he had been as heavy in conjecturing, as his mafter in explaining : Eut there is no mercy even towards a wrong interpretation of his meaning ; the fuil'eiings of the fcholar's body are to rectify the miftakes cf his mind. I am confident that no boy,... | |
| 1803 - 472 pagina’s
...may suggest an error, which a lad could not have fallen into, if he had been as heavy in conjecturing as his master in explaining. But there is no mercy...them. A great or good mind must necessarily be the worse for such indignities ; and it is a sad change, to lose of its virtue for the improvement of its... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 322 pagina’s
...fallen into, if he had been as heavy in conjecturing as his master in explaining. But there is no merry even towards a wrong interpretation of his meaning,...to rectify the mistakes of his mind. I am confident thai: no boy, who will not be allured to letters without blows, will ever be brought to any thing with... | |
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pagina’s
...then10 mercy even towards a wrong interpretation > ш meaning, the suffering* of tbe scholar i body a« to rectify the mistakes of his mind. I am confident that no boy who will not h<- -, ured to letter» without blows, will ever be bruu^l о any thing with them. Л great or good... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 316 pagina’s
...may suggest an error, which a lad could not have fallen into, if he had been as heavy in conjecturing as his master in explaining. But there is no mercy...them. A great or good mind must necessarily be the worse for such indignities ; and it is a sad change, to lose of its virtue for the improvement of its... | |
| 1822 - 788 pagina’s
...towards a wrong interpretation of his mean ing, the suft't; rings of the scholar's body arc to nf tify ph Addison b' lured to letters without blows, will ever be brouff to any thing with them. A great or good J"'... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 pagina’s
...may suggest an error, which a lad could not have fallen into, if he hud been as heavy in conjecturing as his master in explaining. But there is no mercy...am confident that no boy, who will not be allured io letters without blows, will ever be brought to any thing with them. A great or good mind must necessarily... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 pagina’s
...there is no mercy even towards a wrong interpret tion of his meaning ; the sufferings of the schola body are to rectify the mistakes of his mind. I am confident that no boy, who will not bo ; lured to letters without blows, will ever be broujj to any thing with them. A great or good mi... | |
| 1824 - 278 pagina’s
...may suggest an error, which a lad could not have fallen into if he had been as heavy in conjecturing as his master in explaining: but there is no mercy...them. A great or good mind must necessarily be the worse for such indignities: and it is a sad change to lose of its virtue for the improvement of its... | |
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