 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 and delightfully in one year.  The Quarterly Review - Side 112redigert av - 1829Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1803 - 456 sider
...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 and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost, partly in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 sider
...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 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... | |
 | Andrew Bell - 1815 - 486 sider
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 604 sider
...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 and delightfully, in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost, partly in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 sider
...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 and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | 1829 - 660 sider
...would have scouted them from any professedly liberal writer, that we cannot but admire and quote:— Whatever simplification was made in the old grammar,...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 acquired... | |
 | 1824 - 574 sider
...we have." And our Milton says, " 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 delightfully in one year." How deep must have been the sense in Johnson's mind of the disgust produced by this mode of teaching,... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 sider
...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 and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is but time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 sider
...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 and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | 1828 - 592 sider
...forgiven him his faith as a clergyman. But whatever simplification was made in the old grammar, themethod of teaching continued, till our own days, to be what...in one year;' and he might have added — as is in orie year forgotten by the greater number of those who have thus imperfectly acquired it. What was... | |
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