 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 - Pàgina 110editat per - 1829Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1803 - 456 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 1815 - 486 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 1821 - 336 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 574 pàgines
...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 - 1825 - 302 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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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