 Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily...  American Annals of Education - Pàgina 2471839Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1807 - 542 pàgines
...so much •"miserable Latin arid Greek, as might be "Meafned otherwise, easily and delightfully, "'m one year. ' And that which casts our "'proficiency therein so much behind, is 'flour lime lust; partly in too oft idle vacan"-<cics, given both 'to schools and universi"''ties ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pàgines
...generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek,...easily and delightfully in one year. And that which cast our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given... | |
 | Andrew Bell - 1815 - 486 pàgines
...distinguished names, Milton and Locke, • Milton says, f We do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and de.t h'ghtfully in one year.' And Locke says, * The ordinary way of learning Latin in a grammar school... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 614 pàgines
...yeer. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behinde, is our time lost partly in too ofte idle vacancies, given both to schools and universities,...exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose theams, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgement, and the finall work of a head... | |
 | 1820 - 606 pàgines
...generally so unpleasing and so insuccessfull ; first, we do amisse to -spend seven or .eight years, merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one yeer. And that which casts our proficiency therein... | |
 | 1824 - 574 pàgines
...to use, worse than that we have." And our Milton says, " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." How deep must have been the sense in Johnson's mind of the disgust produced by this mode of teaching,... | |
 | 1829 - 660 pàgines
...intellectual. Milton complained that we did " amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together as much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned...otherwise easily and delightfully in one year;" and he might have added—as is in one year forgotten by the greater number of those who have thus imperfectly... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 pàgines
...generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful; first we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek,...which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is but time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities, partly in a... | |
 | James Taylor - 1828 - 212 pàgines
...appear in succession, till the course is complete. " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek,...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." — Milton. PARSING LESSONS TO BOOK I. OF VIRGIL. PARSING LESSONS TO BOOK I. OF HOMER. AND A SHORT... | |
 | 1828 - 592 pàgines
...intellectual. Milton, complained that we did ' amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together as much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned...otherwise easily and delightfully in one year;' and he might have added — as is in orie year forgotten by the greater number of those who have thus imperfectly... | |
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