| John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...Through viewless conduits spirits to dispense ; The springs of motion from the seat of sense. Twas not the hasty product of a day, But the well-ripened fruit of wise delay. He, like a patient angler, ere he strook, Would let them play a while upon the hook, Our healthful... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...Through viewless conduits spirits to dispense; The springs of motion from the seat of sense. 'Twas not the hasty product of a day, But the well-ripened fruit of wise delay. He, like a patient angler, ere he strook, Would let them play a while upon the hook. Our healthful... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1823 - 390 pages
...at an heat by a set of presumptuous men, like the assembly of pettifoggers run mad in Paris. " *Tis not the hasty product of a day, " But the well-ripened fruit of wise delay." It is the result of the thoughts of many minds, in many ages. It is no simple, no superficial thing,... | |
| John Sargent - Missionaries - 1830 - 534 pages
...be affirmed that it was hurried to a conclusion with a heedless and blameable precipitancy. " 'Twas not the hasty product of a day ; But the well-ripened fruit of wise delay." " It is a real refreshment to my spirit" Mr. Martyn remarks to Mr. Corrie, just at the moment of sending... | |
| English literature - 1833 - 564 pages
...of a person occupied with other matters, a mere skeleton of legislation, wanting flesh and blood : " Not the hasty product of a day, But the well-ripened fruit of wise delay." Under the actual circumstances of this country however, any law on national education must, as Cousin... | |
| Law - 1838 - 508 pages
...excellence lies not upon the surface, and where the approbation of mankind is like the work of the author, " Not the hasty product of a day, But the well-ripened fruit of wise delay" — or where the surpassing excellence is such that it captivates not only at its birth, but is green... | |
| 1840 - 566 pages
...political institutions, time was needed tor the process of assimilation which made the Union : 'Twas not the hasty product of a day, But the well-ripened fruit of wise delay. The social union once made, the political union was designed to give it consistency and stability. It is... | |
| Michael Wilkinson - Christianity - 1844 - 436 pages
...it be affirmed that it was hurried to a conclusion with a heedless and blameable precipitancy. 'Twas not the hasty product of a day, But the well-ripened fruit of wise delay. ' It is a real refreshment to my spirit,' Mr. Martyn writes to Mr. Corrie, 'just at the moment of sending... | |
| Education - 1850 - 780 pages
...that it is a thing to be attained by an off-hand effort, or by following this or that set of rules. It is not the hasty product of a day, But the well-ripened fruit of sage delay. It is not our design in this article to treat the subject philosophically or profoundly,... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 800 pages
...them. Every mountain has found a tongue for them. . Sonitnm toto Germania ccelo Audiit, et insolitis tremuerunt motibus Alpes. Everywhere the people are...upon which they have entered. New systems are to be constructed ; new forms to be established ; new governments to be instituted, organized, and administered,... | |
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