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 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 lehte
...the third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year ; and for children, he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instiuction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1808 - 584 lehte
...branches of literature, to converse with the lisping infant. " For children (says Dr. Johnson) lie condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 lehte
...the third part of his annual revenue,, though the whole was not a hundred a year; and for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 lehte
...the third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year; and for children, he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 lehte
...the third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year ; and for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 lehte
...the third* part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year ; and for children, he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 lehte
...the third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year ; and for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, .to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn... | |
 | Agnes Sophia Semple - 1812 - 332 lehte
...Let it be remembered too, that for children, and young children, Dr. Watts, as Johnson says of him, " condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations... | |
 | Agnes Sophia Semple, Mrs. Marshall, Robert Bloomfield - 1812 - 648 lehte
...it be remembered too, that for children, and young •children, Dr. Watts, as Johnson says of him, " condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1816 - 566 lehte
...the third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not an hundred a-year; and for children, he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn... | |
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