 | 1803 - 456 sider
...many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasant and so unsuccessful; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together...much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 sider
...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...much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which cast our proficiency therein so much... | |
 | Andrew Bell - 1815 - 486 sider
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 604 sider
...mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years, merely in scraping...much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise, easily and delightfully, in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 sider
...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...much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much... | |
 | 1824 - 574 sider
...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 as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." How deep must have been the sense in Johnson's mind... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 sider
...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...much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 sider
...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...much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 sider
...years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be 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 vacancies given both to schools and universities ;... | |
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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... 
