 | 1803 - 456 páginas
...generally so unpleasant and so unsuccessful; first, 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. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost, partly in too oft idle... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | Andrew Bell - 1815 - 486 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 604 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | 1824 - 574 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | James Taylor - 1828 - 212 páginas
...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,...easily and delightfully in one year." — Milton. PARSING LESSONS TO BOOK I. OF VIRGIL. PARSING LESSONS TO BOOK I. OF HOMER. AND A SHORT LATIN GRAMMAR.... | |
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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. 
