...learning 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,...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. — Milton. 1 282 LACONICS. • DCCCCLXVI Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which cost Philosophers...

...learning 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,...be learned Otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.—Milieu. DCCCCLXVI Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which coat Philosophers such trouble; Where,...

...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...

...vexatious, and unprofitable. " First, we " do amiss," he observes, " to spend seven or " eight years merely in scraping together so much " miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned " easily and delightfully in one year. And that " which casts our proficiency therein so much be" hind...

...memorable opinion, which forms the motto for our system: ' 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.' That his view of the means to be employed in this caso coincides with our own, his following words...

...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. " I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but strait conduct...

...DIFFERENCE OF THE LANGUAGES WILL ALLOW. BY LEVI HART. We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely In scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise, uuily and delightfully, in one year.— Mltm's Letter on Education. BALTIMORE: PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH...

...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,...in one year ;* and that which casts our proficiency so much behind is, our time lost in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities,...

...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,...be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one ijear ;* and that which casts our proficiency so much behind is, our time lost in too oft idle vacancies...

...still too prevalent of requiring English themes without a previous course of preparatory exercises. 'That which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations,...