 Returning, he proclaims by many a grace, By shrugs and strange contortions of his face, How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.  The Lincoln pocket guide - Página 2de sir Charles Henry J. Anderson (bart.) - 1880 - 80 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Amélie Claire Leroy - 1882 - 176 páginas
...satisfaction. He had been a wild student, clever at nothing but duelling ; then he had travelled, to prove " How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home ; " and lastly he had gone into the army. To excuse many little irregularities... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 páginas
...loads of learned lumber in his head. * » * * Deep-versed in books, but shallow in himself. * * * * How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been kept at home ! 126 Ignorance is the cause of all irreligion — of all atheism.... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 páginas
...enter and possess. (Emerion. The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. Isaac Ihsraeli. How much a dunce, that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce, that has been kept at home. Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes ; and mistakes... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 páginas
...sight to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off or so. 1321 Byron: Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 41. DUNCE. How much a dunce, that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce, that has been kept at home. 1322 Cowper: Prog, of Error. Line 415 DUNDEE. Oh ! for a single... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. Line 690. How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. The Prugrea of Error. Line 415. Just knows, and knows no more, her... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 páginas
...B]»ken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation cf character. HOSEA BALLOU. How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 714 páginas
...Aquinas, in contempt of their opponents the Scotists.] An ignoramus; a dullard; a dolt; a thick-skull. How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. Cou'per. Duncedom (duna'dum), n. The realm or domain of dunces. Cartyle.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1883 - 274 páginas
...spread the man ; Returning, he proclaims by many a grace, By shrugs and strange contortions of his face, How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. The Progress of Error. RELIGIOUS DISCUSSIONS— SIR SMUG. " ADIEU,"... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1884 - 346 páginas
...have no rivals.' 'To maintain a steady course amid all the adversities of life, marks a great mind.' ' How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!' ' Intelligence, beauty, modesty, are the charms of woman.' The evident... | |
 | George Boyle - 1886 - 318 páginas
...— bad inns, but vewy fine wuins gives you quite a taste for that sort of thing ! Eve. (reading). How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! Blount. (aside). That fellow Cowper says vewy odd things! — Humph!... | |
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