 | 1803 - 456 pages
...mother-dialect only. Hence appear so many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasant and so unsuccessful; first, we do amiss to spend seven...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost, partly in too oft idle... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have...learned otherwise 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... | |
 | Andrew Bell - 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... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have...learned otherwise, easily and delightfully, in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost, partly in too oft idle... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...solid things in them as"well as the words an<j lexicons, lie were were nothing to be so much esteem'da learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 pages
...industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is but time lost partly in too oft idle... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much lo be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle... | |
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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 and... 
