 | Arthur Henfrey - 1867 - Počet stránok 502
...of ignorance, and develop first into the improved form of common information, * " There is no study that could prove more successful in producing often...senses, than our traditional study and idolatry of language."—Professor ffalford Vaughan. which then unfolds into the definite and perfected condition... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - Počet stránok 646
...millstones with passive obedience," — crammed with dead words, but unapt for living inquiry, — with plenty of second-hand knowledge reflected and refracted...? Ask our modern writers of genius, and they will poiut to the ambition, the dissipation, the restlessness of our wealthier classes. Ask our parents,... | |
 | George Griffith - 1870 - Počet stránok 474
...which could prove more successful in producing often thorough idleness and vacancy of mind, parrot repetition, and sing-song knowledge — to the abeyance...of the intellectual powers, as well as to the loss aud paralysis of the outward senses — than our traditional study and idolatry of language." — VAUGHAN'S... | |
 | 1873 - Počet stránok 800
...British Parliament to testify as to the working of the English system, he said : " There is no study that could prove more successful, in producing, often...than our traditional study and idolatry of language." Two hundred years ago, Milton criticised the education of his time from exactly this point of view.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - Počet stránok 984
...study which could prove more successful in producing often through idleness and vacancy of mind, parrot childhood" Thinking as highly as a rational being can of the discipline which may be given to good natural faculties,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - Počet stránok 988
...study which could prove more successful in producing often through idleness and vacancy of mind, parrot repetition, and sing-song knowledge, — to the abeyance...powers, — as well as to the loss and paralysis of the ontward senses,— than our traditional study and idolatry of language. Thinking as highly as a rational... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1883 - Počet stránok 78
...characterizes the effects upon the mind of our excessive addiction to lingual pursuits : ' There is no study that could prove more successful in producing often...than our traditional study and idolatry of language.' Very properly may it be said that our inordinate study of language is an idolatry of which the blind... | |
 | 1883 - Počet stránok 502
...late Royal Professor of History at Oxford, says : " There is no study that could prove more effective in producing often thorough idleness and vacancy of...than our traditional study and idolatry of language." This brings us to a point which we would press, that the scientific and classical methods of training... | |
 | 1883 - Počet stránok 896
...repetition and sing - song knowledge, to the abeyance and destruction of the intellectual powers, as veil as to the loss and paralysis of the outward senses,...than our traditional study and idolatry of language." Very properly may it be said that our Inordinate study of language is an idolatry of which the blind... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1883 - Počet stránok 84
...sing-song knowledge, to the abeyance and destruction of the intellectual powers, as well as to thq loss and paralysis of the outward senses, than our traditional study and idolatry of language.' Very properly may it be said that our inordinate study of language is an idolatry of which the blind... | |
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There is no study that could prove more successful in producing often thorough idleness and vacancy of mind, parrot-like repetition and sing-song knowledge, to the abeyance and destruction of the intellectual powers, as well as to the loss and paralysis... 
