 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 pagini
...pale boy-senator yet tingling stands, And holds his breeches close with both his hands. Then thus. Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach alono. When reason, doubtful, like the Samian letter,' Points him two ways, the narrower is the better.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pagini
...pale boy-senator yet tingling stands, And holds his breeches close with both his hands. Then thus : ' Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach alone. 15» When reason doubtful, like the Samian letter,1 Points him two ways, the narrower is the better.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 pagini
...pale boy senator yet tingling stands, And holds his breeches close with both his hands. Then thus : ' for When reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two ways (Y), the narrower is the better Plac'd... | |
 | John Murdoch - 1873 - 122 pagini
...most conclusive reasoning, and yet they may remain. utterly uncared for : — " Since man from beasts by words is known, Words are man's province ; words we teach alone, When reason doubtful, like the Samian letter Points him two ways ; the narrower is the better. Placed... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pagini
...pale boy senator yet tingling stands, And holds his breeches close with both his hands. Then thus : ' Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach alone. 150 When reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 550 pagini
...come from school) to be under See Editor's note. the undue influence of any master.— Then thus. ' Since Man from beast by "Words is known, Words are Man's province, Words we teacli alone. iw When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, 1 Points him two ways, the narrower... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - 1884 - 416 pagini
...confining youth to words, and keeping them out of the way of real knowledge." Their reasoning is : " Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach alone. We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought,... | |
 | James Sully - 1886 - 456 pagini
...give them a disgust and aversion to their books." Pope satirizes the practice in the " Dunciad " : " Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach alone." It is probable that this revolt from the tyranny of words has led educationists to undervalue the real... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1886 - 340 pagini
...the most consummate master of words thus uses his power to satirize verbal education:— Then thus since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach aloue. ***** To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As fancy opens the quick springs of sense.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1887 - 602 pagini
...smile, ' Substitute letters of lead, and you have my entire approval ' : — ' Since man from beasts by Words is known, Words are man's province : Words we teach alone. When Eeason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points us two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd... | |
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Placed at the door of learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence... 
