 ... till at length, out of all patience with the stupid docility of his pupil, the tutor perceives the absolute necessity of making him get by heart with all convenient speed every word in the language. The formidable columns rise in dread succession....  Practical Education - Pàgina 58per Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1811Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Honoria Williams - 1830 - 234 pàgines
...The formidable columns rise in dread succession : months and years are devoted to the undertaking ; but after going through a whole spelling-book, perhaps...come triumphantly to spell Zeugma, we have forgotten to spell Abbott, and must begin again with abasement." Practical Education. After this lively enumeration... | |
 | Alexander John Ellis - 1848 - 196 pàgines
...language. The formidable columns rise in dread succession. Months and years are devoted to the undertaking; but after going through a whole spellingbook, perhaps...whole dictionary, till we come triumphantly to spell Zeuffma, we have forgotten how to spell Allot, and we must begin with Abasement." (sl) It is needless... | |
 | Robert Robinson (inspector of national sch, Ireland.) - 1863 - 490 pàgines
...useless words. Nearly extinct, though its successor is little better. Founded upon the error of supposing spell Zeugma, we have forgotten how to spell Abbot, and we must begin again with Abasement.'1 But unnatural and ineffectual as this laborious system was, it was made worse by the way... | |
 | Robert Robinson (inspector of national sch, Ireland.) - 1867 - 384 pàgines
...but after going through the whole spelling-book, perhaps a whole dictionary, till we can triumphantly spell zeugma, we have forgotten how to spell abbot, and we must begin again with abasement.' 1 Made worse by the introduction of certain obsolete and useless words. Irrational and ineffectual... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1869 - 316 pàgines
...language. The formidable columns rise m dread succession. Months and years are devoted to the undertaking ; but after going through a whole spelling-book, perhaps...from reason or analogy, is nothing compared with the d:fficulty of learning the expknation of them by rote, and the still greater difficulty of un lerstanding... | |
 | Robert Robinson (inspector of national sch, Ireland.) - 1869 - 354 pàgines
...but after going through the whole spelling book, perhaps a whole dictionary, till we can triumphantly spell zeugma, we have forgotten how to spell abbot, and we must begin again with abasement.'1 Made worse by the introduction of certain obsolete and useless words. Irrational and ineffectual... | |
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