 | England - 1841 - 508 pages
...holy 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 righteous things ; therefore above... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1866 - 662 pages
...says of himself: " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing : all my mind wag 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." He seems to... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - Bible - 1842 - 384 pages
...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 rightHOus things; therefore, above... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...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 righteous things ; therefore, above... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...stale compar'd ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set l: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against th* E : myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things ; therefore, above... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...says : " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Desirous to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good." Such is the nature of Genius — such the manner in which it is often developed. It delights to leave... | |
 | Christianity - 1841 - 500 pages
...holy 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, bora to promote all truth, All righteous things ; therefore above... | |
 | John Frost - Conduct of life - 1846 - 332 pages
...PHILIP SYDNEY. " 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." Paradise Regained.... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1821 - 422 pages
...directed, and it may be said of him, in that Milto»ic language which he loved, • all his mind was set Serious to learn, and know, and thence to do, What might be public good ; himself he thought Born to that end horn, to promote all truth, And righteous things. He despised... | |
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 pages
...OF JOHN MILTON. "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 Bom to that end, born to promote all truth And righteous things." — Paradiie Regained.... | |
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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... 
