 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 páginas
...bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. "It has been by that means," said he to a boy at our house one day, "that all my knowledge has been gained, except...up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk." — MRS. PIOZZI. Reading without purpose is sauntering, not... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 páginas
...bye-times when they had nothing else to do. ' It has been by that means (said he to a boy at our house one day) that all my knowledge has been gained, except...up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk 4. A man is seldom in a humour to unlock his book-case, 1 In 1777... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 páginas
...bye-times when they had nothing else to do. ' It has been by that means (said he to a boy at our house one day) that all my knowledge has been gained, except...up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk 4. A man is seldom in a humour to unlock his book-case, ' In 1777... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1884 - 774 páginas
...had nothing else to do. <l It has been by that means," said he one day to a boy at Mrs. Thrales's, " that all my knowledge has been gained, except what...up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe and my tongue ready to talk." "A man ought to read just as inclination leads him ; for what... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1884 - 750 páginas
...had nothing else to do. " It has been by that means," said he one day to a boy at Mrs. Thrales's, " that all my knowledge has been gained, except what...up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe and my tongue ready to talk." "A man ought to read just as inclination leads him ; for what... | |
 | Joseph Thomas Raby - 1909 - 168 páginas
...had nothing else to do. "It has been by that means," he said once to a boy at the Thrales' house, " that all my knowledge has been gained, except what...up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe. ' At the age of eighteen he read not works of mere amusement, but all literature, all ancient... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2006 - 302 páginas
...bye-times when they had nothing else to do. "It has been by that means," said he to a boy at our house one day, "that all my knowledge has been gained, except...up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk. A man is seldom in a humour to unlock his bookcase, set his desk... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2000 - 270 páginas
...bye-times when they had nothing else to do. "It has been by that means (said he to a boy at our house one day) that all my knowledge has been gained, except...up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk. A man is seldom in a humour to unlock his book-case, set his... | |
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It has been by that means (said he to a boy at our house one day) that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk. A man is seldom in a humour to... 
