 | Quintilian - Oratory - 1805 - 498 pages
...quick apprehension ; and that most persons lose the fruits of all their application and study, through a natural defect of understanding. The case is the...•working and the sagacity of the brain is peculiar to f , . BOOK I. OF ELOQUENCE. * man; and hence it is, that his min'd is Supposed tobe of divine original.... | |
 | Quintilian - Oratory - 1805 - 938 pages
...quick apprehension ; and that most persons lose the fruits of all their application and study, through a natural defect of understanding. The case is the...fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to be savage; so tinworking and the sagacity of the brain is peculiar to man; and hence it is, that his mind is supposed... | |
 | 1829 - 512 pages
...susceptible of instruction, this being the characteristic of the human race ; and as birds have from nature a propensity to fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to be savage, so is activity and vigor of mind peculiar to man ; and hence his mind is supposed to be of divine original.... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - Bible - 1863 - 726 pages
...kindness in our hearts might burn, The good which others did to us, to return."—JUT. 1. XV. v. 148. " As birds are provided by nature with a propensity...and wild beasts to be savage,• so the working and sagacity of the brain is peculiar to man; and hence it is that his mind is supposed to be of divine... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 578 pages
...be troubled, and rejoice for the good. QUINTILIAN (Rome, 35-05 AD) " Mind of Divine Original." — As birds are provided by nature with a propensity...working and the sagacity of the brain is peculiar to men; and hence it is that his mind is supposed to be of divine original.— Lib. i. I. Dullness Not... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 566 pages
...troubled, and rejoice for the good. QÜINTILIAN (Rome, 35-95 AD) « Mind of Divine Original.» — As birds are provided by nature with a propensity...fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to be savage, во the working and the sagacity of the brain is peculiar to men ; and hence it is that his mind is... | |
 | William Wright - Law - 2003 - 262 pages
...susceptible of instruction; this being the characteristic of the human race: and as birds have from nature a propensity to fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to be savage; so is activity and vigour of mind peculiar to:man; and hence his mind is supposed to be of divine original.... | |
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This is the characteristic of the human race; and as birds are provided by nature with a propensity to fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to be savage; so... 