...they are once gone from school, are never to have more to do with it as long as they live. Can there be anything more ridiculous than that a father should...a trade, wherein he, having no use of Latin, fails 1 Montaigne (Essais i., chap, xxv.) tclls us that he was taught to speak by a German, ignorant of French,...

...any education of the intellect, simply as such. " Can there be any thing more ridiculous," he asks, " than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn ihe Roman language when at the same time he designs him for a trade, wherein he, having no use of Latin,...

...world."258 "Can there be anything Bk. IV., c. 179. 1"Thoughts, Sec. 176. 2BCf. Thoughts, Secs. 164, 165. more ridiculous than that a father should waste his...language, when at the same time he designs him for a trade?""9 Again, "I think the first six books of Euclid enough to be taught. For I am in some doubt,...

...simply as such. "Can there be anything more ridiculous," he asks, "than that a father should waste his money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language, wherein he, having no use of Latin, fails not to forget that little which he brought from school, and...

...Elizabethan Critical Essays," Gregory Smith, 2. 2»a. Locke expressed the obverse idea that " nothing can be more ridiculous than that a father should waste his...when at the same time he designs him for a trade." 53 Turnbull follows in the same vein : " Few think their children qualified for a trade till they have...

...inquiries nbout the Propriety of It, till Mr. Locke ventured to censure the conduct of a Father who should waste his own Money and his Son's Time in Setting him to learn the Roman Language." . . . Byerley was a disciple of Locke In matters of discipline also. At the end of his advertisement...

...they are once gone from school, are never to have more to do with it as long as they live. Can there be anything more ridiculous than that a father should...a trade, wherein he, having no use of Latin, fails 1 Montaigne (Essais i., chap. xxv.) tells us that he was taught to speak by a German, ignorant of French,...

...Gregory Smith, 2, 293. " Wynne, op. clt., 4, 5. Locke expressed the obverse idea that " nothing can be more ridiculous than that a father should waste his...language, when at the same time he designs him for a traded" 53 Turnbull follows in the same vein : " Few think their children qualified for a trade till...

...they are once gone from school, are never to have more to do with it as long as they live. Can there be anything more ridiculous than that a father should...money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Eoman language, when, at the same time, he designs him for a trade, wherein he, having no use of Latin,...

...inquiries about the Propriety of it, till Mr. Locke ventured to censure the conduct of a Father who should waste his own Money and his Son's Time in Setting him to learn the Roman Language." ... Byerley was a disciple of Locke in matters of discipline also. At the end of his adver tisement...