 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 páginas
...B.'s and Mrs. Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the...turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like : instead of that... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 páginas
...B.'s and Mrs. Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge, insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the...turned with conceit of his own powers, when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like: instead of that... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 páginas
...B.'s and Mrs. Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the...turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like : instead of that... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 546 páginas
...B.'s and Mrs. Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge, insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the...turned with conceit of his own powers, when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like : instead of that... | |
 | 1838 - 1012 páginas
...B.'s and Mrs. Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the shape of knnwledyc, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own poweis when he has learnt, that... | |
 | 1839 - 694 páginas
...in one of his letters when he exclaims — "Knowledge, insignificant and vapid, as Mrs. Barbauld's books convey, it seems must come to a child in the shape of knowledge, and his empty noddle must be filled with conceit of his own powers when he has learnt that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1853 - 606 páginas
...B.'s and Mrs. Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the...empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powere when he has learnt that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 634 páginas
...B.'s and Mrs. Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the...turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like : instead of that... | |
 | 1863 - 636 páginas
...Mrs. B. and Mrs. Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the...turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and that Billy is better than a horse, and such like, instead of... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1863 - 608 páginas
...Mrs. B. and Mrs. Trimmer's nonsense lay in piles about. Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the...turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learned that a horse is an animal, and that Billy is better than a horse, and such like, instead of... | |
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... and Billy is better than a horse, and such like : instead of that beautiful interest in wild tales which made the child a man, while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child. 
