 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 sider
...conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. And, as old birds who fly abroad to forage for grain, bring it home in their beak, without tasting it themselves,...and there, out of several authors, and hold it at their tongues' end, only to distribute it among their pupils. — Montaigne. DXLVI. The most pernicious... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 sider
...conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. And, as old birds who fly abroad to forage for grain, bring it home in their beak, without tasting it themselves,...and there, out of several authors, and hold it at their tongues' end, only to distribute it among their pupils — Montaigne. VoL i. K DXLVL The most... | |
 | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1842 - 792 sider
...mean time leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. And, like birds who fly abroad to forage for grain, and bring it home in their...their young ; so our pedants go picking knowledge liere and there out of several authors, and hold it at the tongue's end, only to distribute it amongst... | |
 | 1845 - 916 sider
...the mean time leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. And like birds who fly abroad to forage for grain, and bring it home in their...distribute it amongst their pupils. And here I cannot but smile to think how I have paid off mysojf in showing the foppery of th's kind of learning, who myself... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt - 1845 - 786 sider
...mean time leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. And, like birds who fly abroad to forage for grain, and bring it home in their...without tasting it themselves, to feed their young j so our pedants go picking knowledge here and there out of several authors, and hold it at the tongue's... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 sider
...and the understanding unfurnished and void. And as old birds which fly abroad to forage for grain, bring it home in their beak, without tasting it themselves,...here and there out of several authors, and hold it at their tongues' end, only to distribute it among their pupils. 19. Contentment produces, in some measure,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 sider
...conscience and understanding unfurnished and void. And, as old birds who fly abroad to forage for grain, bring it home in their beak, without tasting it themselves,...and there, out of several authors, and hold it at their tongues' end, only to distribute it among their pupils. — Montaigne. PEDANTRY AND BIGOTRY.... | |
 | 1857 - 894 sider
...the mean time leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. And like birds who fly abroad to forage for grain, and bring it home in their...hold it at the tongue's end only to distribute it among their pupils. * * * But the worst of it is, their scholars and pupils are no better nourished... | |
 | 1856 - 374 sider
...conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. And, as old birds who fly abroad to forage for grain, bring it home in their beak, without tasting it themselves,...and there, out of several authors, and hold it at their tongues' end, only to distribute it among their pupils. — Montaigne. DXLVL The most pertinacious... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1868 - 360 sider
...conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. And, like birds who fly abroad to forage for grain bring it home in their beak without tasting it themselves,...here and there out of several authors, and hold it at their tongues' end only to spit it out and distribute it amongst their pupils.' The dancing-master... | |
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And, like birds who fly abroad to forage for grain, and bring it home in their beak, without tasting it themselves, to feed their young ; so our pedants go picking knowledge here and there out of several authors, and hold it at the tongue's end, only... 
