...read good authors till the attention was weaiy or the memory had its fraught ;" so possessed was he " with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse a knowledge of them into others." Yet he sometimes indulged his passion for the observation of external...

...art, "Sapcre est et principium ct fons," "get wisdom — get understanding" — "Vcrbaque provisara rem non invita sequentur ;" or, as Milton quaintly...infuse the knowledge of them into others ; when such n man would speak, his words, (by what I can express,) like so many nimble and airy servitors trip...

...TRUE ELOQUENCE," says he, " I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of Truth : And that, whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent...into Others, WHEN SUCH A MAN WOULD SPEAK, his words, like so many nimble and airy Servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered Files, as he...

..."Some eloquence, I find, to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth : and that whose mind is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good...into others, when such a man would speak, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well ordered files, as he...

...Language seems to be his living and conscious slave. Milton's statement is its own proof, — that " whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent...airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their places." There is but one way in which...

...Language seems to be his living and conscious slave. Milton's statement is its own proof, — that " whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent...airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their places." There is but one way in which...

...True eloquence,' says Milton, ' I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent...good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse them into the minds of others—when such a man would speak, his words, like so many nimble and airy...

...True eloquence," says Milton, " I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth ; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent...knowledge of them into others, — when such a man woald speak, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well...

...charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, — when such a man would speak, his words, \ike so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places." Serum enim copia (says the...

...provisam rem non invita sequuntur. Hor. de Arte Poet. ' Whose mind soever is fully possessed with the fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest...others — when such a man would speak, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he...