| Charles Frederick Bennett - 1817 - 174 pages
...his depths of knowledge to the ignorant or inebriated, in the temple of the country ale-house, " Who gazed, and still the wonder grew. '* How one small head could carry all he knew; " I hayc also known the size of premises, the quality of furniture, the state of finance, efforts... | |
| Sid Smith - 1838 - 246 pages
...according to the capacities of each brain to receive and accommodate them. At Goldsmith's Schoolmaster, " Still the wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he knew.'* The popular language of mankind pre-suppoees this hypothesis; upon the manifestation of any... | |
| Ephraim HOLDING (pseud. [i.e. George Mogridge.]), George Mogridge - 1843 - 206 pages
...oracle. " While words of learned length and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around! And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he knew." The way in which he kept up his credit was this: he was quick to discover an error, and woe... | |
| Old Humphrey - 1845 - 264 pages
...oracle. " While words of learned length and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ! And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he knew." The way in which he kept up his credit was this : he was quick to discover an error, and woe... | |
| 1845 - 558 pages
...always getting wiser and wiser. You mean to be like the schoolmaster, I suppose, of whom it was said, " And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he knew." And yet I very much question if you know how heavy the moon is ? ARTHUR. Why no, I do not pretend... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1855 - 364 pages
...many. Now, there is the same marvel about this small town that there was about the scholar's head — " And still the wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he knew." Well, it is a wonder so many great men can be warm-clothed, bedded down, and well stalled there,... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1855 - 432 pages
...Now, there is the same marvel about this small town, that there was about the scholar's head — " And still the wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he knew." Well, it is a wonder so many great men can be warm-clothed, bedded-down, and well stalled there,... | |
| James Booth - 1856 - 212 pages
...is very natural with regard to any one who is raised above them by knowledge, however superficial. " And still the wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he knew." The Spanish proverb sayg — "In the country of the blind men a one-eyed man is a king." Hence... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 610 pages
...; each is a root that throws out a thousand tendrils, and both helps and is helped by every other. And still the wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he knew. No wonder at all, for the more we know the more we can know. Knowledge thus compacted is as different... | |
| 1858 - 798 pages
...each is a root that throws out a thousand tendrils, and both helps, and is helped by every other — " And still the wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he know." No wonder at all, for the more we know the more we can know. Knowledge thus compacted is as... | |
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