 For the sun, which we want, ripens wits as well as fruits ; and as wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so must ripe understanding, and many civil virtues, be imported into our minds from foreign writings, and examples of best ages : we shall...  The Harleian Miscellany, Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ... - Page 31edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Charles William Stubbs (bp. of Truro.) - 1884 - 196 pages
...had sagacity as great as the generosity of his intentions." CHAPTER X. SOME EXPERIMENTS IN GERMANY. " As wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so...virtues be imported into our minds from foreign writings ; we shall else miscarry still, and come short in the attempts of any great enterprise." — MILTON.... | |
 | John Milton - Prose poems, English - 1889 - 554 pages
...or bad success, alike unteachable. For the sun, which we want, ripens wits as well as fruits ; and as wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so...dangerous ; and left them still conquering under the garue grievances, that men suffer conquered ; which was indeed .nlikely to go otherwise, unless men... | |
 | George Herman Ellwanger - Architecture, Domestic - 1890 - 302 pages
...Charybdis of books. Biblioriptos : one who throws books around. XII. MAGICIANS OF THE SHELVES. ii. As wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so...be imported into our minds from foreign writings. — MILTON. It is pleasant to take down one of the magicians of the shelf, to annihilate my neighbor... | |
 | George Herman Ellwanger - Architecture, Domestic - 1890 - 300 pages
...a Charybdis of books. Biblioriptos ; one who throws books around. XII. MAGICIANS OF THE SHELVES. IL As wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so...civil virtues be imported into our minds from foreign writings.—MILTON. It is pleasant to take down one of the magicians of the shelf, to annihilate my... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Cooperation - 1906 - 380 pages
...or rapacious, impatient, or distrustful will be uncertain adherents. CHAPTER XXXI AMERICAN SOCIETIES As wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so...be imported into our minds from foreign •writings : we shall else miscarry still, and come short in the attempts of any great enterprise. — MILTON'S... | |
 | Scott Holland Goodnight - American periodicals - 1907 - 268 pages
...prefaced with any desire to "overthrow an idol." He adop-ts as the motto of his work, Milton's sentence, "as wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so...be imported into our minds from foreign writings; — we shall else miscarry still, and come short in the attempts of any great enterprise." And since... | |
 | Scott Holland Goodnight - American periodicals - 1907 - 282 pages
...prefaced with any desire to "overthrow an idol." He adop"j as the motto of his work, Milton's sentence, "as wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so...civil virtues be imported into our minds from foreign writings;—we shall else miscarry still, and come short in the attempts of any great enterprise."... | |
 | Walter Leatherbee Leighton - Philosophy, French - 1908 - 124 pages
...frontispiece of volume I a selection is quoted from Milton's "History of Briton." It runs as follows: "As wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so...be imported into our minds from foreign writings; we shall else miscarry still, and come short in the attempt of any great enterprise." We might, by... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Cooperation - 1908 - 750 pages
...so must ripe understanding and many civil virtues be imported into our minds from foreign writings : we shall else miscarry still, and come short in the attempts of any great enterprise.—MILTON'S Hist, of Brit., Book iii. THE English students of co-operative science found... | |
 | American essays - 1910 - 485 pages
...good or bad success, alike unteachable. For the sun, which we want, ripens wits as well as fruits; and as wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so...in the attempts of any great enterprise. Hence did theif victories prove as fruitless as their losses dangerous, and left them still, conquering, under... | |
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