| James Booth - 1846 - 172 pągines
...been so much employed in, are such as probably they shall scarce ever speak or write. Different was the practice of the wise and learned nations amongst...part of education to cultivate their own, not foreign tongues. The Greeks counted all other nations barbarians, and had a contempt for their languages,"... | |
| 1846 - 668 pągines
...considered ultra in detail, although the general principle is undoubtedly correct. " If grammar," says he, " ought to be taught at any time, it must be to one who can speak the language already : how else can he be taught the grammar of it ? I know not why any... | |
| Thomas Kelt - 1849 - 424 pągines
...taught the grammar of it ? This is evident from the practice of the wise and learned nations among the ancients. They made it a part of education to cultivate their own, not foreign tongues. The Greeks counted all other nations barbarous, and had a contempt for their languages. And... | |
| Claude Marcel - 1853 - 458 pągines
...tongues ; and by bare reading may come to understand them sufficiently for all his purposes. ... If grammar ought to be taught at any time, it must be to one that can speak the language already. . . . I know not why any one should waste his time and beat his head about the Latin grammar, who does... | |
| 1855 - 420 pągines
...taught the grammar of it ? This is evident from the practice of the wise and learned nations among the ancients. They made it a part of education to cultivate their own, not foreign tongues. The Greeks counted all other nations barbarous, and had a contempt for their languages. And... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1859 - 1358 pągines
...be to one that can speak т ie language already; how else can te lie taught the grammar of it ? 'Rus at least is evident, from the practice of the wise...the ancients. They made it a part of education to cultiMit their own, not foreign languages. The Greeks counted all other nations ijrbarous, and had... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1864 - 874 pągines
...grammar should be taught?" To which, upon the premised grounds, the answer is obvious, viz. : — That if grammar ought to be taught at any time, it must be...part of education to cultivate their own, not foreign tongues. The Greeks counted all other nations barbarous, and had a contempt for their languages. And,... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1864 - 840 pągines
...grammar should be taught?" To which, upon the premised grounds, the answer is obvious, viz. : — That if grammar ought to be taught at any time, it must be...that can speak the language already : how else can ho be taught the grammar of it ? This, at least, is evident from the practice of the wise and learned... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1864 - 914 pągines
...grammar should be taught?" To which, upon the premised grounds, the answer is obvious, viz. : — That if grammar ought to be taught at any time, it must be to one that can «peak the language already: how else can ho be taught the grammar of it? This, at least, is evident... | |
| Robert Hebert Quick - 1868 - 360 pągines
...learn merely by rote. Languages must be learned by rote, and used without any thought of grammar : ' if grammar ought to be taught at any time, it must be...already : how else can he be taught the grammar of it?' 'Grammar is, in fact, an introduction to rhetoric.'* 'I grant the grammar of a language is sometimes... | |
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