 Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily...  American Annals of Education - Page 2391839Full view - About this book
 | James Booth - Business and education - 1846 - 172 pages
...learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful. First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years, merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost in too oft idle vacancies given both to Schools and Universities; partly in a preposterous exaction,... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful : and we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. — Milton. DXXXVI. Effects of Perseverance. — All the performances of human art, at which we look... | |
 | 1846 - 844 pages
...the ages of twelve and twenty-one. " For we do amiss," he remarks, " to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." The students were to reside in a spacious house and ground about it fit for an academy, standing in... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1846 - 668 pages
...Camb. London : Whittaker & Co. 1844. " WE do amiss," said John Milton, " to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek,...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one."* This was in the year of our Lord 1644. " I will frankly confess that I am sad when I reflect upon the... | |
 | Villemain (M.) - French literature - 1846 - 464 pages
...la géographie dans Pomponius Mela, l'architec1 We do amiss to spend seven or eight years nearly , in scraping together so much miserable latin and greek as might be learn'd otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. ( Of éducation, lo Master Samuel Hartlib :... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 568 pages
...learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wils of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and... | |
 | A. R. Craig - Classical education - 1847 - 408 pages
...on the " Locke system," are to the following effect — " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...learned otherwise, easily and delightfully in one year." M. Tanaquil Faher gives his opinion in these words : " Thus much I will be bold to say, that youth... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...learned otherwise easily and delightfully ia one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein » r, Gentle as falcon Or hank of the tower ; Ai patient and aa «till, And as full of good univcreiti« ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the emptj wits of children to compose themes,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, ai x X casta our proficiency therein w much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given... | |
 | Bibliography - 1848 - 486 pages
...ESSAY EXPLANATORY OF THE SYSTEM. 12mo. 2s. 6d. " We do amiss to spend seven or eight yean in (crapinz together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily ana delightfully in one year."— MILTON. TAYLOR AND WALTON, 28, UPPER GOWER STREET. (168) BAGSTER'S... | |
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