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" If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives little of it; but with a funnel, and by degrees, you shall fill many of them, and spill little of your own; to their capacity they will all receive, and be full. "
Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 62
1824
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...first receives ; therefore a master should temper his own powers, and descend to the other's infirmity. e virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs...circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still all receive and be full. And as it is fit to read the best authors to youth first, so let them be of...
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Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).

James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...first receives; therefore a master should temper his own powers, and descend to the other's infirmity. If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives little of it ; but with a funnell, and by degrees, you shall fill many of them, and spill little of your own ; to their capacity...
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Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).

James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 pages
...infirmity. If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives little of it ; but with a funnell, and by degrees, you shall fill -many of them, and...spill little of your own ; to their capacity they will all receive and be full. And as it is fit to read the best authors to youth first, so let them be of...
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Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter; Ed. with an Introduction ...

Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...receives. Therefore a master should 10 temper his own powers, and descend to the other's infirmity. If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives...spill little of your own ; to their capacity they will all receive and be full. And as it is fit is to read the best authors to youth first, so let them be...
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Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter

Ben Jonson - 1892 - 222 pages
...receives. Therefore a master should 10 temper his own powers, and descend to the other's infirmity. If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives...spill little of your own ; to their capacity they will all receive and be full. And as it is fit 15 to read the best authors to youth first, so let them be...
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Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter

Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...first receives. Therefore a master should temper his own powers, and descend to the other's infirmity. If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives...many of them, and spill little of your own ; to their j capacity they will all receive and be full. And as it is to read the best authors to youth first,...
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Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter; Ed. with an Introduction ...

Ben Jonson - 1892 - 204 pages
...receives. Therefore a master should 10 temper his own powers, and descend to the other's infirmity. If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives...little of it ; but with a funnel, and by degrees, you sh. fill many of them, and spill little of your own ; to the capacity they will all receive and be...
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Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria, 1580-1880

James Mercer Garnett - 1899 - 728 pages
...first receives; therefore a master should temper his own powers, and descend to the other's infirmity. If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives...spill little of your own; to their capacity they will all receive and be full. And as it is fit to read the best authors to youth first, so let them be of...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 376 pages
...Therefore a Master should temper his owne powers, and descend to the others infirmity. If you powre a glut of water upon a Bottle, it receives little of it ; but with a Funnell, and by degrees, you shall fill many of them, and spill little of your owne ; to their capacity...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 374 pages
...Therefore a Master should temper his owne powers, and descend to the others infirmity. If you powre a glut of water upon a Bottle, it receives little of it; but with a Funnell, and by degrees, you shall fill many of them, and spill little of your owne; to their capacity...
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