 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 612 sider
...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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 614 sider
...esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother's dialect only. in. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so insuccessfull j first, we do amisse to spend seven or eight years, merely in scraping together so much... | |
 | 1826 - 102 sider
...what benefit will they derive from this when the cares of a family crowd upon them ? Hence appears the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful. It is thought by some, that the deeper females are rounded in the branches of study which belong to... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 sider
...lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman compe-i tantly wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the...learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful; and we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and... | |
 | Virgil - 1829 - 126 sider
...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,... | |
 | 1829 - 188 sider
...RESTORATION OF THE PRIMITIVE MODE OF SCHOLASTIC TUITION IN ENGLAND, DISEMBARRASSED OF ITS MODERN ABUSES. " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together to much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully iu one year."... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 sider
...lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competantly wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have m.sde learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful; and we do amiss to spend seven or eight... | |
 | Ludwig von Mühlenfels - 1830 - 190 sider
...large in AN ESSAY EXPLANATORY OF THE SYSTEM, Price 2s. 6d. boards. " We do amiss to spend seven 01 eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as may be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. — Milton. PRINTED FOR JOHN TAYLOR,... | |
 | 1839 - 636 sider
...them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother...unsuccessful. First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years n: street, London, where he undertook the education of his nephowe, n and Kdwiird Phillips ; and, doubtless... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 258 sider
...them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother...learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful: and we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and... | |
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And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman... 
