 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 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 Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 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 I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 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 be publick good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All... | |
 | Books - 1817 - 576 pages
...supposed our Saviour to draw ! • — " 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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 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 be public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...sotting with my present state compar'd ! Wan I was yet a child, no childish play Tome was pleasing ; : now dreadful deeds Might have ensued, nor only Paradise to do Wat might be public good ; myself I thought Bom to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 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 be public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 312 pages
...solemn numbers, his school-life: — " 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
