| John Locke - 1712 - 332 pągines
...only buftle and ftir about Children; this being almoft that alone, which is thought on, when Peo" pie talk of Education, makes it the greater Paradox. When...how many Years are fpent in it, and what a noife and bufmefs it imkes to no purpoie,. I can hardly forbear thinking, that the Pa* rents of Children ftill... | |
| 1803 - 456 pągines
...it the least part of education. This may seem strange in the mouth of a bookish man. When I consider what ado is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many years are spent in it, and what a noise and business it makes to no purpose, I can hardly forbear thinking that... | |
| Ely Bates - 1804 - 422 pągines
...and which threatens to poison the very springs of knowledge and virtue; and> •* " When 1 consider what ado is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many years are spent in it, and what a noise and business it makes to no purpose, I can hardly forbear thinking that... | |
| John Locke - 1812 - 492 pągines
...alone, which is thought on, when people talk of education, makes it the greater paradox. When I consider what ado is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many years are spent in it, and what a noise and business it makes to no purpose, I can hardly forbear thinking, that... | |
| John Locke - 1823 - 502 pągines
...alone which is thought on, when people talk of education, makes it the greater paradox. When I consider what ado is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many years are spent in it, and what a noise and business it makes to no purpose, I can hardly forbear thinking, that... | |
| 1829 - 188 pągines
...; but he goes even further in the expression of his opinion on this subject : — " When I consider what ado is made about a " little Latin and Greek, how many years are " spent in it, and what a noise and business it " makes to no purpose, I can hardly forbear " thinking,... | |
| George Colman - 1830 - 350 pągines
...Who shall decide when doctors disagree ? POPE. Respiciens rura, laremque suum. OVID. WHEN I consider what a-do is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many years are spent in it, and what a noise and business it makes to no purpose, I can hardly forbear thinking that... | |
| A. R. Craig - 1847 - 408 pągines
...All the authority of Locke, a few years after Milton, is to the same effect. — " When I consider what ado is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many years are spent in it, and what a noise and business it makes to no purpose, I can hardly forbear thinking that... | |
| John Minter Morgan - 1849 - 250 pągines
...with avidity, but with discrimination, the classic authors.* What says Locke? — "When I consider what ado is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many years are spent in it, and what a noise and business it makes to no purpose, I can hardly forbear thinking, that... | |
| John Minter Morgan - 1850 - 244 pągines
...with avidity, but with discrimination, the classic authors.* What says Locke ? — " When I consider what ado is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many years are spent in it, and what a noise and business it makes to no purpose, I can hardly forbear thinking, that... | |
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