 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 páginas
...Porsonian * " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Luiiu and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year."— Milton, letter to Hartlit. school ; the pedantic jargon of Iambus and Trochee, monotonously doled out by men... | |
 | 1840 - 544 páginas
...do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping logtlhtr so much miserable Latin and Ortek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." — Milton, letter to Haitlit. ties of the Porsonian school ; the pedantic jargon of Iambus and Trochee, monotonously... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - 1841 - 208 páginas
...perhaps, even in SEVEN YEARS." 3. MILTON says, "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." 4. LOCKE says, " At the Entrance upon any Sort of Knowledge, every Thing of itself, is difficult ;... | |
 | 1846 - 670 páginas
...London : Whittaker & Co. 1844. " WE do amiss," said John Milton, " to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek,...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one."* This was in the year of our Lord 1644. " I will frankly confess that I am sad when I reflect upon the... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 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... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 páginas
...generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful : and we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. — Milton. DXXXVI. Effects of Perseverance. — All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise... | |
 | James Booth - 1846 - 172 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 in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | 1846 - 844 páginas
...of twelve and twenty-one. " For we do amiss," he remarks, " to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek,...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." The students were to reside in a spacious house and ground about it fit for an academy, standing in... | |
 | 1846 - 668 páginas
...London : Whittaker & Co. 1844. " WE do amiss," said John Milton, " to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek,...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one."* This was in the year of our Lord 1644. " I will frankly confess that I am sad when I reflect upon the... | |
 | A. R. Craig - 1847 - 408 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... | |
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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. 
