 | 1791 - 814 pagina’s
...other children, what ufe can be made of it r It will be loft before it is wanted, and the wafte of fo much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expefted from precocity, and too little performed. Mifs • was an inftance of early cultivation, but... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pagina’s
...other children, what ufe can be made of it? It will be loft before it is wanted, and the wafte of fo much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid....expected from precocity, and too little performed. Mifs was an inftance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Prefbyterian... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pagina’s
...repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Mifs .<.,-i.»ftx, was an inftance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Prefbyterian parfon, who keeps an infant boarding-fchool, fo that all her employment now is, * to fuckle... | |
 | 284 pagina’s
...other children, what ufe can be made of it f It will be loft before it is wanted, and the wafte of fo much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid....expected from precocity, and too little performed. Mifs — — was an inftance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 pagina’s
...other children, what ufe can be made of it ? It will be loft befoie it is wanted, and the wafte of fo much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid....expected from precocity, and too little performed. Mils was an inflance of early cultivation ; but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Prefbyterian... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pagina’s
...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ?...a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.' She... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 pagina’s
...old than other children, what ^^ use can be made of it I It will be lost before it is want- 66. eel, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher...a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.' She... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pagina’s
...labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, »hat u«e сим be made of it? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of no much time aud labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too uiuch ы expected from precocity, and... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pagina’s
...then less is learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other." — Yet more, he observed, was learned in publick than in...Presbyterian p'arson, who keeps an infant boarding-schoool, se that all her employment now is, • ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.' She tells the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 382 pagina’s
...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ?...marrying a little Presbyterian parson who keeps an infant boarding-school; so that all her employment now is ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.' She... | |
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I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known as ever it can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... 
