 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1833 - 980 pages
...neither be sought nor required, for it is utterly impossible : yet all persons are under some obligation to improve their own understanding, otherwise it will...weeds and brambles. Universal ignorance, or infinite error, will overspread the mind which is utterly neglected and lies without any cultivation. The following... | |
 | Literature - 1862 - 678 pages
...Emily quoted a sentence of the pious and excellent Dr. Watts : " All persons are under some obligation to improve their own understanding, otherwise it will be a barren desert, or a forest overgrow» with •weeds and brambles. Universal ignorance or infinite errors will overspread the mind... | |
 | Boys - 1842 - 362 pages
...neither be sought nor required, for it is utterly impossible : yet all persons are under some obligation to improve their own understanding ; otherwise it...mind, which is utterly neglected, and lies without any cultivation. Skill in the sciences is indeed the business and profession but of a small part of... | |
 | Simon Clough - Sermons, American - 1843 - 574 pages
...persons are under some obligations to improve their own understanding ; otherwise, it would be like a barren desert, or a forest overgrown with weeds and brambles. Universal ignorance, and infinite error will overspread the mind which is utterly neglected, and lies without any cultivation.... | |
 | 1849 - 312 pages
...neither be sought nor required, for it is utterly impossible : yet all persons are under some obligation to improve their own understanding; otherwise it will...mind which is utterly neglected, and lies without any cultivation. Skill in the sciences is indeed the business and profession but of a small part of... | |
 | Charles Christopher Keys - Christian leadership - 1851 - 236 pages
...impossible. Yet all persons are under some obligation to improve their own understanding. Otherwise it would be a barren desert, or a forest overgrown with weeds...mind which is utterly neglected, and lies without any cultivation." — Dr. Watts. If this be tr;ie of men in general, it certainly holds good in relation... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1851 - 888 pages
...neither be sought nor required, for it is utterly impossible: yet all persons are under somu obligation to improve their own understanding, otherwise it will be a barren desert, or a forest overgrown with weetls and brambles. Universal ignorance, or infinite error, will overspread the mind which is utterly... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Education - 1852 - 320 pages
...nor required, for it is utterly impossible; yet all persons are under some obligation to •mprove their own understanding; otherwise it will be a barren...mind which is utterly neglected, and lies without any cultivation. Skill in the sciences is indeed the business and profession but of a small part of... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Books and reading - 1833 - 246 pages
...all persons are under some obligation- to improve their own understanding. Otherwise, it will be t barren desert, or a forest overgrown with weeds and...mind, which is utterly neglected, and lies without any cultivation. Skill in the sciences is indeed the business and profession but of a small part of... | |
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No man is obliged to learn and know every thing ; this can neither be sought nor required, for it is utterly impossible : yet all persons are under some obligation to improve their own understanding; otherwise it will be a barren desert, or a forest overgrown... 
