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Modern Society, Or, The March of Intellect: The Conclusion of Modern ... - Page 315
by Catherine Sinclair - 1837 - 470 pages
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...sorting with 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 be public good : myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things :...
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Paradise Regained: Samson Agonistes, Comus and Arcades

John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...sorting with 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 be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things: therefore,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 3

John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...with my present state compar'd ! 200 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 195. — meditations] This is the reading in Milton's own edition ;...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...with my present state compartí ! 200 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, 205 i All righteous things...
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A biographical history of England, adapted to a methodical catalogue of ...

James Granger - 1824 - 800 pages
...duodecimo. POETS. JOHN MILTON, (Mat. 10.) " 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."...
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A Biographical History of England: From Egbert the Great to the Revolution ...

James Granger - Great Britain - 1824 - 580 pages
...duodecimo. POETS. JOHN MILTON, (Mat. 10.) " 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."...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - Apologetics - 1825 - 398 pages
...bard hath represented him as saying: "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 1 thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things: therefore...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben ..., Volume 3

Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...intellectual talent. SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY. " 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."...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volume 4

John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...with my present state compar'd ! 200 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 publick good ; myself I thought It should be observed, that D'Anville, in the map of Palestine in his...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...sorting with my present state compar'd ! 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 puhlic good : myself I thought ""«", to U»t end, horn to.promote all truth, JlA\ righteous things...
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