 Can there be any thing more ridiculous than that a father should waste his own money and his son's time in setting him to learn the Roman language, when at the same time he designs him for a trade...  The Life of John Locke - Page 22by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 506 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peter Gay - History - 1996 - 756 pages
...than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language, when, at the same time, he designs him for...that little which he brought from school, and which it is ten to one he abhors for the ill usage it procured him?"6 Locke was not a philistine; he recognized... | |
 | Tony Crowley - Language and culture - 1996 - 228 pages
...than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language when, at the same time, he designs him for a trade . . .? Could it be believed, unless we had every where amongst us examples of it, that a child should... | |
 | Antonio T. De Nicolás - Education - 2000 - 582 pages
...than that a father should waste his own money and his son's time in setting him to learn the Roman language, when at the same time he designs him for...school, and which 'tis ten to one he abhors for the ill usage it procured him? Could it be believed, unless we had every where amongst us examples of it,... | |
 | Kenneth Robert Minogue - 252 pages
...'than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language, when at the same time he designs him for...one he abhors for the ill-usage it procured him?' This attitude challenges not merely the classics but any kind of academic education at all. Newman's... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Philosophy - 2005 - 281 pages
..."than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language, when at the same time he designs him for...to one he abhors for the ill-usage it procured him? Could it be believed, unless we have everywhere amongst us examples of it, that a child should be forced... | |
 | Nancy J. Hirschmann, Kirstie M. McClure - Social Science - 2010 - 352 pages
.... . . that a father should waste his own money and his son's time in setting him to learn the Roman language, when at the same time he designs him for...fails not to forget that little which he brought from school."59 Since such sons are evidently capable of learning Latin — Locke is, after all, ridiculing... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 208 pages
..."than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language, when at the same time he designs him for...to one he abhors for the ill-usage it procured him ? Could it be believed, unless we have every where amongst us examples of it, that a child should be... | |
 | John Locke - Education - 1886 - 320 pages
...than that a Father should waste his own Money and his Son's Time in setting him to learn the Roman Language, when at the same Time he designs him for...forget that little which he brought from School, and 35 which 'tis ten to one he abhors for the ill Usage it procured him? Could it be believed, unless... | |
 | John Locke - Education - 1988 - 328 pages
...than that a Father should waste his own Money and his Son's Time in setting him to learn the Roman Language, when at the same Time he designs him for...forget that little which he brought from School, and 35 which 'tis ten to one he abhors for the ill Usage it procured him? Could it be believed, unless... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1872 - 1454 pages
...ridiculous than that я father waste hi« own money, and his son's time, in setting him to le roman language, when at the same time he designs him for a trade, in he having no use of latin? p. 289. vgl. Montaigne I, 303 307. kritisch verstehen will; für den... | |
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