 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 pàgines
...grand security against immorality and dissipation,* is the most useful ' " People have now-a-days got n strange opinion that every thing should be taught...lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures; you may teach making shoes by lectures." Dr. JOHNSON. W. k T<... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pàgines
...than from intentional lying that there is so much falsehood in the world." Talking of instruction, " People have now-adays (said he) got a strange opinion...lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chemistry by lectures; you might teach making of shoes by lectures!" He allowed very... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pàgines
...time defy, " As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing...lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach hymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures !" At night I supped... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pàgines
...time defy, " As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-daya, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing...best taught by lectures, except where experiments are ^'^ —You might teach making of shoes by lectures !" 57.' At night 1 supped with him at the Mitre... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 734 pàgines
...unintelligible. ' People,' says Doctor Johnson, ' have now-adays got a strange idea thatevery thing is to be taught by lectures ; now I cannot see that lectures...lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chemistry by lectures ; you may teach making of shoes by lectures.' Now, although this... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pàgines
...That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, " As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away : " While self-dependent power can time defy, " As rocks resist...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. Yon may teach chymistry by lectures. You may teach making of shoes by lectures !" At night I... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pàgines
...than from intentional lying that there is so much falsehood in the world." Talking of instruction, " People have now-adays (said he) got a strange opinion...lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chemistry by lectures ; you might teach making of shoes by lectures!" He allowed very... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pàgines
...have now-a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Not*, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach chyinistry by lectures. You may teach making of shoes by lectures !'' At night... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pàgines
...: " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away : While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist,...nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except 1 [On the iron crown, see Mr. Steevens's note 7, on Act iv. Sc. i. of RICHAKD III. It seems to be alluded... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pàgines
...: " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away : While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist...nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except 1 [On the iron crown, see Mr. Steevens's note 7, on Act iv. Sc. i. of RICHARD III. It seems to be alluded... | |
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People have now-a-days (said he), got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught... 
