 Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning 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, as might be learned otherwise easily...  American Annals of Education - Página 2471839Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Milton - 1889 - 468 páginas
...generally so — unpleasing nnd 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 delight* fully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 452 páginas
...circumstances. It is many years since Milton wrote, " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." If this was correct in his day, how much more... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 450 páginas
...circumstances. It is many years since Milton wrote, "We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." If this was correct in his day, how much more... | |
 | SIR WILLIAM HUGGINS - 1906 - 230 páginas
...Royal Society, is urgently true to-day. He wrote : " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in MICHAEL FARADAY, FRS BV A. Bl.AIKLI.Y one year." Later on, Evelyn made a similar complaint. " At most... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 374 páginas
...years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned other j wise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which...given both to schools and universities, partly in a preposterous1• exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses and orations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 páginas
...years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned other wise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which...much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies2 given both to schools and universities, partly in a preposterous10 exaction, forcing the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 348 páginas
...years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned other wise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which...proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost pardy in too oft idle vacancies9 given both to schools and universities, pardy in a preposterous10... | |
 | William Morison - 1909 - 172 páginas
...the schools of England this primary aim was disregarded. Seven or eight years, he says, were spent "in scraping together so much miserable Latin and...be learned otherwise, easily and delightfully, in a year; time was lost in a preposterous exaction, forcing the wits of children to compose themes, verses,... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1910 - 360 páginas
...grow into hatred and contempt of learning." He claims that " 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." He especially stigmatizes, as Locke did later, the formal work in Latin composition, " forcing the... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1910 - 358 páginas
...grow into hatred and contempt of learning." He claims that " 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." He especially stigmatizes, as Locke did later, the formal work in Lafin composition, " forcing the... | |
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