 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...  American Annals of Education - Էջ 2391839Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Johnston - 1858 - 408 էջ
...714 CIIESNTJT ST, PHILADELPHIA. We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely scraping together to much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully In one year. — MILTOS. VJEGIL: interlinear translation by Hart and Osborne — 1 yol. royal 12mo, half Turkey... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 562 էջ
...BY CHAELES DESILVEE, 711 CHESNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA. We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. — MILTON. VIEGIL: interlinear oranslation by Hart and Osborne — 1 TO!, royal 12mo, half Turkey... | |
 | Sallust, James Hamilton - 1860 - 336 էջ
...PUBLISHED BY CHARLES DESILVES, 7H CHESNDT ST, PHILADELPHIA. We do amiss to spend seven or eight yean merely scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. — MILTOS. VIRGIL: interlines/ .translation by Hart and Osborne — 1vol. royal 12mo, half Turkey... | |
 | George O. Cutler - 1862 - 152 էջ
...complained of the wrong done in "spending seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." He proposed, for youths from the age of twelve to one-and-twenty, to find a spacious house and grounds,... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - 1865 - 128 էջ
...ago, — and Milton was a learned classical scholar, — " we do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily in one year." I do not believe the grindstone theory. I am not going to dispute the docSrine, that... | |
 | 1866 - 492 էջ
...requirements of his station ; for we really " do amiss," as Milton says, " to spend seven -or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." Let us reform our plan of education, and bring it more into conformity with British needs than scholastic... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 էջ
...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 learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1871 - 932 էջ
...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 that which casts our proficiency therein so much bebind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ;... | |
 | 1871 - 692 էջ
...his Treatise on Education, a passage of which we quote : " 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. » * * * Whereas, if after some preparatory grounds of speech, by their certain forms got into memory,... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1872 - 538 էջ
...first, we do amiss to spend a -.vm or eight years merely in scraping together so much i t'-er^'-ie Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.* And that which cu.-t- 'ur proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost v.'.nK in too oft idle vacancies given... | |
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