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The Argument of Mr. Edward N. Dickerson: With His Notes and Explanations - Page 34
by Edward Nicoll Dickerson - 1856
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His Memoirs and Poetry

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...
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The Principles of Phrenology

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...
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Ephraim Holding's homely hints to Sunday school teachers

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...
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Ephraim Holding's Homely Hints: Chiefly Addressed to Sunday School Teachers

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...
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

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...
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Nature and Human Nature

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,...
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Nature and human nature, by the author of 'Sam Slick, the clockmaker'.

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,...
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How to Learn and what to Learn: Two Lectures Advocating the System of ...

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...
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The National Magazine, Volume 12

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...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 51

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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