 | John Milton - 1809 - Počet stránok 534
...mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend...easily and delightfully in one year. And that which cast our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given... | |
 | Andrew Bell - 1815 - Počet stránok 486
...distinguished names, Milton and Locke, • Milton says, f We do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and de.t h'ghtfully in one year.' And Locke says, * The ordinary way of learning Latin in a grammar school... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - Počet stránok 612
...mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so in successful I ; first, we do amisse to spend seven or eight years, merely in scraping...together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one yeer. And that which casts our proficiency therein... | |
 | 1824 - Počet stránok 574
...to use, worse than that we have." And our Milton says, " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." How deep must have been the sense in Johnson's mind of the disgust produced by this mode of teaching,... | |
 | 1829 - Počet stránok 660
...intellectual. Milton complained that we did " amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together as much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned...otherwise easily and delightfully in one year;" and he might have added—as is in one year forgotten by the greater number of those who have thus imperfectly... | |
 | James Taylor - 1828 - Počet stránok 212
...works are in a state of forwardness, and will appear in succession, till the course is complete. " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." — Milton. PARSING LESSONS TO BOOK I. OF VIRGIL. PARSING LESSONS TO BOOK I. OF HOMER. AND A SHORT... | |
 | 1828 - Počet stránok 592
...intellectual. Milton, complained that we did ' amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together as much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned...otherwise easily and delightfully in one year;' and he might have added — as is in orie year forgotten by the greater number of those who have thus imperfectly... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - Počet stránok 354
...appear the many mistakes which have m.sde learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful; and we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. — Milton. 1 282 LACONICS. • DCCCCLXVI Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which cost Philosophers... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - Počet stránok 352
...appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful; and we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...be learned Otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.—Milieu. DCCCCLXVI Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which coat Philosophers such trouble; Where,... | |
 | Virgil - 1829 - Počet stránok 126
...whole Series, is exhibited at large in AN ESSAY EXPLANATORY OF THE SYSTEM. Price 2s. Cd. boards. " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as may be learned otherwise catily .Mid delightfully in one year."— Milton. PRINTED FOR JOHN TAYLOR,... | |
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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 and delightfully in one year. 
