| Anecdotes - 1827 - 510 pages
...orward and precoce youths, and some I have known, but I never did :ither hear or read of any thing like to this sweet child, if it be right to call him...who has more knowledge than most men in the world. THE JEWS The Israelites, or Jews, were so little connected with other nations, that their names have... | |
| Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...sufficient to elicit the admiration of the learned Pepys. Well, and with sad reason, does Evelyn observe: " I had read of divers forward and precocious youths, and some I have known; but I never did either hear or read of anything like to this sweet child,—if it be right to call him child,—... | |
| John Evelyn - 1854 - 470 pages
...study. He was perfect in arithmetic, and now newly entered into Greek. In sum (liorresco r¿ferena,) I had read of divers forward and precocious youths, and some I have known, but I never did either hear or read of any¿ thing like to this sweet child, if it be right to call him child who... | |
| John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1859 - 450 pages
...study. He was perfect in arithmetic, and now newly entered into Greek. In sum (horresco referent), I had read of divers forward and precocious youths, and some I have known, but I never did either hear or read of anything like to this sweet child, if it be right to call him child who... | |
| John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1862 - 446 pages
...study. He was perfect in arithmetic, and now newly entered into Greek. In sum (horresco refereni), I had read of divers forward and precocious youths, and some I have known, but I never did either hear or read of anything like to this sweet child, if it be right to call him child who... | |
| John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1862 - 450 pages
...study. He was perfect in arithmetic, and now newly entered into Greek. In sum (/iorresco referena), I had read of divers forward and precocious youths, and some I have known, but I never did either hear or read of anything like to this sweet child, if it be right to call him child who... | |
| William Munk, Royal College of Physicians of London - Physicians - 1878 - 522 pages
...play as at his study. He was perfect in arithmetic, and now newly entered into Greek. In sum, harresco referens, I had read of divers forward and precocious...men in the world. I counselled his father not to set his heart too much on this jewel. Immodicis brevis est cetas et rara seneclus." ROBERT LEMAN, of Oulton,... | |
| John Evelyn - Autobiography - 1879 - 652 pages
...youths, and some I have known, but I never did either heare or read of any thing like to this sweete child, if it be right to call him child who has more knowledge than most men in the world. I counsell'd his father not to set his heart too much on this Jewell, Immodicis brcvis est irtas., et... | |
| John Evelyn - Europe - 1901 - 410 pages
...referens), I had read of divers forward and precocious youths, and some I have known, but I never did either hear or read of anything like to this sweet child,...who has more knowledge than most men in the world. I counseled his father not to set his heart too much on this jewel, <( Immodicis brevis est atas, et... | |
| Literature - 1901 - 418 pages
...play as at his study. He was perfect in arithmetic, and now newly entered into Greek. In sum (horrescc referens), I had read of divers forward and precocious youths, and some I have known, but I never did eithet hear or read of anything like to this sweet child, if it be right to call him child who... | |
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