 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 and...  A History of Education - Pagina 192door Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 343 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Cobbett - 1807 - 540 pagina’s
...unsuccessful. " First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight "* years merely in scrnping together somuch 7' miserable Latin and Greek, as might be »' learned...therein so much behind, is our time lost ; partly in loo oft idle vacancies, given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction,... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pagina’s
...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...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 - 486 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1807 - 542 pagina’s
...so much •"miserable Latin arid Greek, as might be "Meafned otherwise, easily and delightfully, "'m one year. ' And that which casts our "'proficiency therein so much behind, is 'flour lime lust; partly in too oft idle vacan"-<cics, given both 'to schools and universi"''ties ;... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 612 pagina’s
...his mother's dialect only. ing 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... | |
 | 1820 - 606 pagina’s
...which have made leatning generally so unpleasing and so insuccessfull; 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 - 574 pagina’s
...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 - 660 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 pagina’s
...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...which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is but time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities, partly in a... | |
 | Virgil - 1827 - 92 pagina’s
...shall conclude with Milton's memorable opinion which forms the motto for our system : " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together...might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in OSTE YEAR." That his view of the means to be employed in this case coincides with our own, his following... | |
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