 | Catherine Sinclair - English fiction - 1854 - 404 pages
...with our safe and speedy preparation for a better and more enduring inheritence. CHAPTER XVI. t When 1 was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, nud thence to do What might be gcn'ral good ; myself I thought Born to that end, boru to promote all... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...sorting with my present state compared ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing;1 all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What might he public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth/ All righteous things... | |
 | Bible - 1858 - 374 pages
...myself I thought Born to that end, horn to promote all truth, All right' ous things j tbercfurc, nhove my years, The law of God I read, and found it sweet. Made it my whole delight, and in it grew." CHAPTER III. 1. The Jifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar. He was successor to Augustus Cesar,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1859 - 490 pages
...youth ;* as were HOBBES and BACON. MILTON has preserved for us, in solemn numbers, his school-life — When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things. It is remarkable that this love of repose and musing is retained throughout life. A man of fine genius... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...really written by the poet with some reference to his own recollections of himself as a child : — " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...to do What might be public good: myself I thought Bom to that end, born to promote all truth And righteous things." Writing in 1641, while his father... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1859 - 532 pages
...youth ;* as were HOBBES and BACON. MILTON has preserved for us, in solemn numbers, his school-life — When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...and know, and thence to do What might be public good : mjself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things. It is remarkable... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...recollections of himself as a child: — " When I was yet a child, no childish piny To me was pleasing; ull my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence...be public good: myself I thought Born to that end, 1югп to promote all truth And righteous things." Writing in ICH, while his father was still alive,... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...the poet with some reference to his own recollections of himself as a child : — " When I was vet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing; all...Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might bo public good : myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth And righteous tilings."... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Messiah - 1859 - 576 pages
...Besides such notable instances, his influence must have been widely and deeply felt, for — All his mind was set, Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What might be public good. In " serving his own generation by the will of God," he became, as Bacon phrases it, " a servant of... | |
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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. 
