 Must, full as much, some other way discount. The Hebrew, Chaldee, and the Syriac, Do, like their letters, set men's reason back, And turn their wits that strive to understand it (Like those that write the characters) lefthanded ; Yet he that is but able...  The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Stran 531818Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 414 strani
...outdone ; As men that wink with one eye see more true, And take their aim much better than with two; For the more languages a man can speak, His talent...Chaldee, and the Syriac, Do, like their letters, set men'.- reason back, And turn their wits, that strive to understand it, (Like those that write the characters)... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 strani
...outdone : As men that wink with one eye sec more true, And take their ainS much better, than with two: For, the more languages a man can speak, His talent...sprung the greater leak ; And, for the industry he 'as spent upon 't, Must full as much some other way discount. The Hebrew, Chaldee, and the Syriac,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 strani
...speak, His talent has but sprung the greater leak ; And, for the industry he 'as spent upon 't, Mast full as much some other way discount. The Hebrew,...men's reason back, And turn their wits, that strive to undersland it, (Like those lhal write the characters) left-handed: Yet he, that is but able to express.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 420 strani
...company. ESSAY VIII. ON THE IGNORANCE OF THE LEARNED. ESSAY VIII. ON THE IGNORANCE OF THE LEARNED. " For the more languages a man can speak , His talent...back, And turn their wits that strive to understand it (Like those that write the characters) left-handed. Yet he that is but able to express No sense at... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 strani
...outdone; As men that wink with one eye, see more true, And take their aim much better than with two : For the more languages a man can speak, His talent...And turn their wits, that strive to understand it, (Like those that write the characters) left-handed: If et he that is but able to express No sense at... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 strani
...outdone; As men that wink with one eye see more true, And take their aim much better than with two : ide Syriae, Do, like their letters, set men's reason back, And turn their wits that strive to understand... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 strani
...eye see more true, And take their aim mueh better than with two : For the more languages a man ean ress'd; All Rhodes is summon'd mueh some other way diseount. The Hebrew, Chaldee, and the Syriae, Do, like their letters, set men's... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1827 - 344 strani
...; As men, that wink with one eye, see more true, 55 And take their aim much better, than with two. For the more languages a man can speak, His talent...but sprung the greater leak ; And, for the industry h' has spent upon't, Must full as much some other way discount. 60 The Hebrew, Chaldee, and the Syriac,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 328 strani
...outdone ; As men that wink with one eye see more true, And take their aim much better than with two : For the more languages a man can speak, His talent...sprung the greater leak ; And for the industry he 'as spent upon 't, Must full as much some other way discount. The Hebrew, Chaldee, and the Syriac,... | |
 | 1856 - 1432 strani
...From black to red began to turn." " And we are best of all led to Men's principles by what they do." " For the more languages a man can speak His talent has but sprung the greater leak." " As beasts are hunted for their furs, Men for their virtues fare the worse." " A teacher's doctrine... | |
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