 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 912 pàgines
...this method will overbalance the difficulty. I know the bent of your prefent attention is direfted towards the eloquence of the bar ; but I would not for that reafon advife you never to quit the ftyle of difpute and contention. As land is improved by fowing... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 pàgines
...infinitely various allurements for spending money which are held out to the young and the thoughtless ; ' As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.1 MELMOTH (Letters of Pliny). to be different from every other thing, or unlike to any thing... | |
 | 1884 - 794 pàgines
...purified from superstition, and the artsaddress themselves to the finer emotions of the mind. Spurzheim. As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with various studies. Pliny. Oh! through the world, where'er we roain, Though souls be pure, and lips be... | |
 | Perkins School for the Blind - 1872 - 762 pàgines
...the harmonious development of the intellectual faculties. True, Pliny has aptly said, that, " as the land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with various studies ; " but the force of his words can be maintained only when their application is not... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger) - 1878 - 466 pàgines
...attending this method will overbalance the difficulty. I know the bent of your present attention is directed towards the eloquence of the bar; but I would...land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, constantly changed, so is the mind by exercising it now with this subject of study, now with that.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pàgines
...attending this method will overbalance the difficulty. I know the bent of your present attention is n humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. style of dispute and contention. As land is improved by sowing with various seeds, so is the mind by... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1879 - 1228 pàgines
...the harmonious development of the intellectual faculties. True, Pliny has aptly said, that, " as the land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with various studies ; " but the force of his words can be maintained only when their application is not... | |
 | - 1881 - 854 pàgines
...the first edition, which I have had in my possession ever since it was printed." [TO BE CONTINUED.] As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by «lercising it with different studies. THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS' MILLENNIAL .STAR. MONDAY, JULY 4, 1881.... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1892 - 906 pàgines
...glass reflecting God, As, by the sea reflected is the sun ; Too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with various studies. Pliny. Oh! through the world, where'er we roam, Though souls be pure, and lips be... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pàgines
...Rochefoucauld. Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. — Mrs. Jameson. VARIETY. As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds,...the mind by exercising it with different studies. — Pliny. Variety is the very spice of life. — Cowper. The most delightful pleasures cloy without... | |
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... but the advantage attending this method will overbalance the difficulty. I know the bent of your present attention is directed towards the eloquence of the bar; but I would not for that reason advise you never to quit the polemic, if I may so call... 
