 | 1883 - 778 sider
...now (1642) much less." In the letter to Hartlib he denounces with equal fierceness the schools and " the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful." The alumni of the universities carry away with them a hatred and contempt for learning, and sink into... | |
 | Max Karl Gottschalk - 1883 - 402 sider
...wisdom'. Yet the language is to him 'but the Instrument conveying to us thiugs useful to be known', and 'the many mistakes which' have made learning generally so unpleasing and so uusuccessful', in his opinion result from the very neglect of this fact. 'We do amiss', he says, 'to... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1884 - 304 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 dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes whichhave made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 sider
...appear the many mistake? which have made learning generally so unpleusing and so unsuccessful: Brut, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so mnch miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.'*... | |
 | 1887 - 636 sider
...SCIENCE. living." They showed, too, something done toward making good the criticism of Milton that " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping togething so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in... | |
 | 1887 - 682 sider
...SCIENCE. living." They showed, too, something done toward making good the criticism of Milton that "We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping togething so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1888 - 572 sider
...merely the instru ment of knowledge. — ED. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learnfng generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first,...we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scrap'.ng together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully... | |
 | Homer - 1888 - 380 sider
...the interlineary system of translations, as being best adapted for learning a language. MII.TON. — We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together as much Latin and Greek as might be learned easily and delightfully in one year. If, after some preparatory... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 450 sider
...not possible, even were it desirable, under such circumstances. It is many years since Milton wrote, "We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely...together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." If this was correct in his day, how much more... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 sider
...possible, even were it desirable, under such circumstances. It is many years since Milton wrote, " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." If this was correct in his day, how much more... | |
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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... 
