 These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep ; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing ; if you mistake them, they...  Plain Words to Young Men - Page 125by Augustus Woodbury - 1858 - 250 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules,...them, they never grumble ; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh a.tyou.—Philobiblion, by Richard de Bury, written in the feign of Edward III. and lately... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferrules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money....them, they never grumble; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at jon.—Philobiblion by Richard de Bury. 303. Bias of the Mind respecting the Future.—... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferrules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money....interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, (hey never grumble; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you. —Philobiblion, by Richard de Bury,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Printers - 1844 - 252 pages
...books "are the masters who instruct us without rods, without hard words and anger, without clothes and money. If you approach them, they are not asleep ;...them, they never grumble ; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you." One of the later minstrels, to whom is ascribed the preservation, and by some... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...does not invariably save each individual, protects the virtue of the mass. — Everett. DCCCXCII. an.: not asleep ; if investigating you interrogate them,...them, they never grumble ; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you. — Philobiblion, by Richard de Bury. DCCCXCIII. Bias of the Mind respecting the... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters that instruct us without rods and ferulas, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money....them, they never grumble ; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you. END OF VOL. I. ERRATA. In the Oxford edition of the Works of Hooker, 1820, Vol.... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1849 - 1194 pages
...secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules,...they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, they never grnmhle ; and if yon are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you. — Richard de Bury. HINT <TO COMMENT... | |
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 pages
...books expose the nakedness of human ignorance, without putting it to shame. These are the masters tl»t instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes and money. If you approach them, they are not asleep ; if investigating you interrogate them, they... | |
 | Charles Knight - Book industries and trade Great Britain History - 1854 - 350 pages
...books " are the masters who instruct us without rods, without hard words and anger, without clothes and money. If you approach them, they are not asleep ;...them, they never grumble ; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you." One of the later ministrels, to whom is ascribed the preservation, and by some... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pages
...ignorance without putting it to shame ! These are the masters that instruct us without rods and ferulas, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money....them, they never grumble ; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you. — De Bury. 69. PRESENT TIME. — Make use of time, if thou lovest eternity ;... | |
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