 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 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...querulously repeat that the elements are little worth. We devote years at school and college to the study of languages, till we are just able to begin to use... | |
 | 1847 - 636 pàgines
...eitlier in the war of knowledge directly useful, collnteraf iaformalion, or graceful ornament? Is not Ihe fault in ourselves? We have laid a foundation which...complain that the foundation is useless. We learn the elemeati, and, neglecting to pursue them, we querulously repeat that the elements are little worth.... | |
 | 1846 - 660 pàgines
...college) — as useless; but is the lawyer, the statesman, the preacher, the medical practitioner, or teacher, quite sure that there is no advantage to...querulously repeat that the elements are little worth. . . 1 am quite confident that the young man who should, while at school and at the university, diligently... | |
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... teacher, quite sure that there is no advantage to be derived in his 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... 