 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...paper every infant mind ; Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption ?) I — No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...infant mind ; When still, as opening sense her dictates wrote Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a hlot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I.— can you pardon my presumption ? — I, No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...paper, evYy infant mind ; Where, still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice, a blot. The thought was happy, "''pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. 2. I, (can you pardon my presumption ?) I, No wit, no genius, yet, for once, will try. Various... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1855 - 444 pages
...Where, still, as opening sense her dictates wro<e, I Fair Virtue put a seal, j or Vice, a blo£. | The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; | Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. | I (can you pardon my presumption ?), 1 1, No wU, no genius, yet, for once, will try. | Various... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...paper every infant mind ; Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I, (can you pardon my presumption f ) I — Ho wit, no genius, — yet for once will try. Various... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...paper, ev'ry infant mind; Where, still, as opening sense her ^dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice, a blot. The thought was happy, -(-pertinent, and true; Methinks a genius might the plant pursue. 2. I, (can you pardon my presumption ?) I, No wit, no genius, yet, for once, will try.... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...paper every infant mind, Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. 1—can you pardon my presumption ?—I, No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various... | |
 | Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 pages
...paper every infant mind, Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. 1 — can you pardon my presumption ? — I, No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...paper evVy infant .,iind ; When still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I, (can you pardon my presumption,) I— No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various... | |
 | American poetry - 1865 - 564 pages
...paper every infant mind, Where still, as opening Sense her dictates wrote, Fair Virtue put a seal, or Vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I — can you pardon my presumption ? — I, No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various... | |
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I — No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various the papers various wants produce, The wants of fashion, elegance, and use. 
