 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 516 pages
...nuniberj, 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 : myeelf I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things." It is remarkable... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 pages
...child, no childish play To me was pleasing : all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thent-e to do What might be public good : myself I thought Born to that end, bom to promote all truth. All righteous things.4 It is remarkable that this love of repose and musing... | |
 | William Turner - 1840 - 444 pages
...my present state compared! 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 public good, myself I thought Bom to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things ;... | |
 | 1841 - 508 pages
...retracing his holy 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,...be public good. Myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things ; therefore above my years The law of God I read, and... | |
 | 1866 - 662 pages
...Milton says of himself: " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing : all my mind wag set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What...be public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things." He seems to have come from his mother an anointed... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1842 - 384 pages
...present state compared ! 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,...be public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All rightHOus things; therefore, above my years, The law of God I read,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...present state compared ! 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...be public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things ; therefore, above my years, The law of God I read,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...present stale compar'd ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of...against th* Eternal Cause. V. Ask for what end the born to promote all truth, All righteous things ; therefore, above my years, The law of God I read,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...! Whea 1 was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Venous to teom e edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. "Ah! who hath r Bom to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things ; therefore, above my years, The law... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...says : " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Desirous to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good." Such is the nature of Genius — such the manner in which it is often developed. It delights to leave... | |
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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... 
