 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...body in embryo, and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with which a child is born is to be taken...away by any future application. Hence it is, that good nature in me is no merit ; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew... | |
 | Edmund William Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...body in embryo, and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with which a child is born is to be taken...away by any future application. Hence it is, that good nature in me is no merit ; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...body in embryo ; and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with which a child is born is to be taken...that good-nature in me is no merit ; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew the cause of any affliction, or could draw defences... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...body in embryo ; and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with which a child is born is to be taken...that good-nature in me is no merit ; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew the cause of any affliction, or could draw defences... | |
 | Mary Jane Chisholm Foster - Religious education of preschool children - 1894 - 252 pages
...body in embryo, and receives impressions so forcibly that they are as hard to be removed by reason as any mark with which a child is born is to be taken away by any future application." — Steele. " The greatest and most important difficulty of human science is the education of children."... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - English essays - 1896 - 324 pages
...body in embryo; and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by reason as any mark with which a child is born is to be taken...that good-nature in me is no merit; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew the cause of any affliction, or could draw defences... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1896 - 580 pages
...body in embryo ; and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with which a child is born is to be taken...that good-nature in me is no merit ; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew the cause of any affliction, or could draw defences... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - English essays - 1896 - 362 pages
...body in embryo; and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by reason as any mark with which a child is born is to be taken...that good-nature in me is no merit; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew the cause of any affliction, or could draw defences... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1896 - 152 pages
...body in embryo ; and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with which a child is born is to be 20 taken away by any future application. Hence it is that good-nature in me is no merit ; but having... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - Irish literature - 1897 - 298 pages
...receives impressions so forcible that they are as hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with 20 which a child is born is to be taken away by any future...that good-nature in me is no merit; but, having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew the cause of any affliction, or could draw defences... | |
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The Mind in Infancy is, methinks, like the Body in Embryo; and receives Impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by Reason, as any Mark, with which a Child is born, is to be taken away by any future Application. 
