 | 1803 - 456 sider
...generally so unpleasant and so unsuccessful; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...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 sider
...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,...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 sider
...omitted, on account of their great eminence, and distinguished names, Milton and Locke, • Milton says, f We do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping...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 sider
...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...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... | |
 | 1820 - 606 sider
...generally so unpleasing and so insuccessfull ; 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... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 sider
...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,...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 sider
...not have found one that could be admitted to use, worse than that we have." And our Milton says, " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping...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 sider
...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 sider
...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,...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 sider
...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,...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... 
