 If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives little of it; but with a funnel, and by degrees, you shall fill many of them, and spill little of your own; to their capacity they will all receive, and be full.  Spirit of the English Magazines - 第 62 頁1824完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Paul L. MacKendrick, Herbert M. Howe - 1952 - 460 頁
...swear? The father's darling! Give it two plums. 7. Ben Jonson, Discoveries (Nonesuch ed.), p. 979: "If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives...spill little of your own; to their capacity they will all receive and be full." 8. See the note in the introduction to selections from the Attic Orators.... | |
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