 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 414 Seiten
...an elephant ; And children are more busy at their play Than those that wisely pass their time away. All the inventions that the world contains. Were not...the luck to light Upon them by mistake or oversight. TRIPLETS {UPON AVARICE, As misers their own laws enjoin To wear no pockets in the mine, For fear they... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 Seiten
...away. Au, the inventions that the world contains, Were not by reason firrt found out, nor brains ; Bat pass for theirs who had the luck to light Upon them by mistake or oversight TRIPLETS UPON AVARICE. Ai misers their own laws enjoin, To wear no pockets in the mine, For fear they... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 Seiten
...excess. . A convert's but a fly, that turns about, After his head's pull'd off, to find it out. •. I, All the inventions that the world contains, Were not...luck to light. Upon them by mistake or oversight. BUTLER. THE GENIUS AND LEARNING OF SHAKSPEARE., SHAKSPEARE is, above all writers, at least above all... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1827 - 344 Seiten
...elephant ; And children are more busy at their play, Than those, that wisely'st pass their time away. All the inventions that the world contains, Were not...reason first found out, nor brains ; But pass for their's, who had the luck to light Upon them by mistake, or oversight. TO HIS MISTRESS. Do not unjustly... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...their love of fame, not the less degree of their benevolence, which is the cause. — Shenstone. MCLXI. All the inventions that the world contains, Were not by reason first found out, nor brains; Hut pass for theirs who had the luck to light Upon them by mistake or oversight. Sutler. MCLXII. However... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 Seiten
...their love of fame, not the less degree of their benevolence, which is the cause. — Shenstone. HCLXL All the inventions that the world contains, Were not by reason first found.q|it, nor brains; But pass for theirs who had the luck to light Upon them by mistake or oversight.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 328 Seiten
...elephant ; And children are more busy at their play Than those that wisely'st pass their time away. ALL the inventions that the world contains, Were not...the luck to light Upon them by mistake or oversight. VOL. n. TRIPLETS UPON AVARICE. As misers their own laws enjoin To wear no pockets in the mine, For... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 316 Seiten
...elephant ; And children are more busy at their play Than those that wisely 'st pass their time away. ALL the inventions that the world contains, Were not...the luck to light Upon them by mistake or oversight. VOL. II. TRIPLETS UPON AVARICE. As misers their own laws enjoin To wear no pockets in the mine, For... | |
 | 1852 - 718 Seiten
...Butler says of inventions, we may apply to the specifics of the old school — " All the tpecifics that the world contains, Were not by reason first...luck to light Upon them by mistake or oversight." In one of his earliest Essays \ Hahnemann has fully exposed the fallacy of this favourite allopathic... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...miss'd; so easy it seem'd, Once found, which yet unfound, most would have thought Impossible. Milton. All the inventions that the world contains, Were not...the luck to light Upon them by mistake or oversight. Butler. Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; A sharpening of the spiritual sight,... | |
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ALL the inventions that the world contains, Were not by reason first found out, nor brains ; But pass for theirs who had the luck to light Upon them by mistake or oversight. 
