 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend...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 given... | |
 | Andrew Bell - Latin language - 1815 - 486 pages
...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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1820 - 612 pages
...mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so in successful I ; first, we do amisse 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 yeer. And that which casts our proficiency therein... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1824 - 574 pages
...to 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 pages
...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... | |
 | James Taylor - Finance - 1828 - 212 pages
...works are in a state of forwardness, and will appear in succession, till the course is complete. " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." — Milton. PARSING LESSONS TO BOOK I. OF VIRGIL. PARSING LESSONS TO BOOK I. OF HOMER. AND A SHORT... | |
 | 1828 - 592 pages
...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 orie year forgotten by the greater number of those who have thus imperfectly... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...appear the many mistakes which have m.sde learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful; and we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. — Milton. 1 282 LACONICS. • DCCCCLXVI Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which cost Philosophers... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful; and we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...be learned Otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.—Milieu. DCCCCLXVI Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which coat Philosophers such trouble; Where,... | |
 | Virgil - 1829 - 126 pages
...whole Series, is exhibited at large in AN ESSAY EXPLANATORY OF THE SYSTEM. Price 2s. Cd. boards. " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as may be learned otherwise catily .Mid delightfully in one year."— Milton. PRINTED FOR JOHN TAYLOR,... | |
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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. 
