 When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...  Harriet Martineau's Autobiography ... - Page 305by Harriet Martineau - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 382 pages
...intellectual talent. SIR PHILIP SYDNEY. " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good : myself I thought Bora to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things." PAHADISE REGAINED.... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...my present state compar'd ! 200 When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What might be publick good ; myself I thought It should be observed, that D'Anville, in the map of Palestine in his... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...with my present state compar'd ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might he puhlic good : myself I thought ""«", to U»t end, horn to.promote all truth, JlA\ righteous things... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 268 pages
...and always well directed, and It may be said of him, in the Miltonic language he loved, • all his mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; himself he thought Born to that end, born, to promote all trath, And righteous things. He despised... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 280 pages
...and always well directed, and it may be said of him, in the Miltonic language he loved, • all his mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; himself he thought Born. to that end, born, to promote all truth, And righteous things. He despised... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...my present state compar'd! aoo When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing, all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good ; my self I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, 205 All righteous things : therefore,... | |
 | John Galt - 1834 - 390 pages
...LIFE, MISCELLANIES, JOHN GALT. When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good. MILTON. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. WILLIAM BLACKYVOOD, EDINBURGH; AND T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON. 1THE... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pages
...numbers, his school-life— * When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good, myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things— Par. Reg. If... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...mind in Paradise Regained : — " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things." How his parents... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1837 - 488 pages
...enduring inheritance. CHAPTER XVI. When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleading ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be gen'ral good ; myself I thought Born to that end* born to promote all truth. All righteous thiugs.... | |
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