This confirms to me what I have heard remarked, That there is a docible season, a learning-time, as I may say, for every person, in which the mind may be led, step by step, from the lower to the higher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

They began to grow more ciuill, familiar, pleasant, and docible amongst vs in very short time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] Reference

They are good Birds to turn a Cage with Bells; or if taught, as the Bulfinch is, I believe, would prove very docible.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof. And A Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians. Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c.] Reference

The first thing which I require in the Person I am to teach, is, that he be of a docible Wit, and not too young of age; than that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surdus loquens. English] Reference

As the Japonese are of docible and reasonable minds, the more they pressed him in dispute, they understood the truth the more: So that their doubts being satisfied, they comprehended easily, that there were no contradictions in our faith, nothing that would not abide the test of the most severe discussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16] Reference

The Mother is the hrft Preacher to the Infantf in (\rumcntally j) Do we not fee that riiey do teach them partly by action and gefture, and partly by voyce I Thxt they can dilhearten and take off from vices, is evident j and teach themobedienceiMe thinks we fhould not make an Infant Lfs 'docible than fome brutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plain Scripture proof of infants church-membership and baptism : being the arguments prepared for (and partly managed in) the publick dispute with Mr. Tombes at Bewdley on the first day of Jan. 1649 ..] Reference

Japan was one of the most populous in the world; that the Japonese were naturally curious, and covetous of knowledge, and withal docible, and of great capacity; that being generally ingenious, and very rational, if they were instructed in the morals of Christianity, they would easily submit to them; and that, if the preachers of the gospel lived according to gospel rules, the whole nation would subject itself to the yoke of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16] Reference

The miserable condition of multitudes of youth, many of whose natural tempers are docible, and would lead them to learn the best things, rather than the worst, is truly deplorable, and is abundantly seen in the history of this man's childhood; where, though circumstances formed him by necessity to be a thief, surprising rectitude of principles remained with him, and made him early abhor the worst part of his trade, and at length to forsake the whole of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference

I am a meek, humble, docible creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

For we are docible to imitate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829] Reference

And his good old father was so well seen in mathematics, that he could tell you, throughout Spain, every part, every port, every ship, with its burden; whither bound, what preparations, what impediments for diversion of enterprises, counsel, and resolution; and, that we may see, as in a little map, how docible this little man was, I will present a taste of his abilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [FRAGMENTA REGALIA]

Having thus answered the only objection that can ever be raised against me as a traveller, I here take a final leave of all my courteous readers, and return to enjoy my own speculations in my little garden at Redriff; to apply those excellent lessons of virtue which I learned among the Houyhnhnms; to instruct the Yahoos of my own family, is far as I shall find them docible animals; to behold my figure often in a glass, and thus, if possible, habituate myself by time to tolerate the sight of a human creature; to lament the brutality to Houyhnhnms in my own country, but always treat their persons with respect, for the sake of my noble master, his family, his friends, and the whole Houyhnhnm race, whom these of ours have the honour to resemble in all their lineaments, however their intellectuals came to degenerate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World] Reference