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" ... with a tale, forsooth; he cometh unto you, with a tale, which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought... "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 156
by George Burnett - 1807
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Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 378 pages
...was his discourse, &c." mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste." — " For even those hard-hearted evil men, who think virtue a school name, and know no other good...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...discourse, &c." VOL. X. PART I. E mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste." — " For even those hard-hearted evil men, who think virtue a school name, and know no other good...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other...should begin to tell them the nature of the Aloes or Rhabarbarum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth ;...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...discourse, &c." VOL. X. PART I. E mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste." — " For even those hard-hearted evil men, who think virtue a school name, and know no other good...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue; even as the child is most often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste.— Sir P. Sidney's Defence of Poesy. CCCCXXXIII. Frenzy does not become a slighter distemper on account...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue; even as the child is most often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste.—Sir P- Sidney's Defence of Poesy. ccccxxxm. Frenzy does not become a slighter distemper on...
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Southern Review, Volume 5

1830 - 550 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth : so is it in men ; (most of whom ore childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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The Southern Review, Volume 5

1830 - 540 pages
...of the mind from iriekedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most whofeBome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant...should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhuburburum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth :...
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The Southern Review, Volume 5

1830 - 530 pages
...child is often brought to take most wk some things, by hiding them in such other as have u pleasant ta which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or barbarum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at l ears than at their mouth : so is...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Sir Philip Sidney's ...

English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth : so is it in men ; (most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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