 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 pàgines
...thrown aside as useless; but is the lawyer, the statesman, the preacher, the medical practitioner or teacher, quite sure that there is no advantage to...author, during which time what we knew of the languages haa gradually oozed from our minds, we reflect with discontent, if not with bitterness, on the loss... | |
 | Harvard University - 1846 - 72 pàgines
...thrown aside as useless ; but is the lawyer, the statesman, the preacher, the medical practitioner or teacher, quite sure that there is no advantage to...school and college in the study of languages, till we axe just able to begin to use them for their chief end, the reading of good books written in them ;... | |
 | 1847 - 636 pàgines
...which we neglect to build upon, and we complain that the foundation is useless. We learn the elemeati, and, neglecting to pursue them, we querulously repeat...languages, till we are just able to begin to use them for thrir chief end, the reading of good books written in them , and after a life passed without opening... | |
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... peculiar pursuit from these neglected studies, either in the way of knowledge directly useful, collateral information, or graceful ornament? Is not the fault in ourselves ? We have laid a foundation which we neglect to build upon, and we complain... 