 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 110edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...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 delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost, partly in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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 delightfully in one year. And that which cast our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | Andrew Bell - Latin language - 1815 - 486 pages
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...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 delightfully, in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost, partly in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...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 delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | 1829 - 660 pages
...made in the old grammar, the method of teaching continued, till our own days, to be what Professor Pillans calls mechanical rather than intellectual....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 acquired... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1824 - 574 pages
...we have." And our Milton says, " 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 delightfully in one year." How deep must have been the sense in Johnson's mind of the disgust produced by this mode of teaching,... | |
 | Precept - Great Britain - 1825 - 302 pages
...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 delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is but time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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 delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | 1828 - 592 pages
...was made in the old grammar, themethod of teaching continued, till our own days, to be what Professor Pillans calls mechanical rather than intellectual....in one year;' and he might have added — as is in orie year forgotten by the greater number of those who have thus imperfectly acquired it. What was... | |
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