 | South Kensington Museum - 1857 - 772 sider
...CLASSICAL INSTRUCTION. INTERLINEAR TRANSLATIONS. " 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." — Milton. THE Essay, written in justification of the system of interlinear translation as an introduction... | |
 | 1857 - 470 sider
...now taught in any— or which ought to be taught in every respectable school. Every pupil would * " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as may be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." — MILTOX, On Education, to Sam. Hartlib.... | |
 | 1857 - 574 sider
...demonstrate the folly of devoting seven or eight years of the life of youth, to the scraping together of so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one; and also to show that it is practicable to initiate young students into science and language by the... | |
 | John Johnston - 1858 - 408 sider
...714 CIIESNTJT ST, PHILADELPHIA. We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely scraping together to much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully In one year. — MILTOS. VJEGIL: interlinear translation by Hart and Osborne — 1 yol. royal 12mo, half Turkey... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 562 sider
...BY CHAELES DESILVEE, 711 CHESNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA. We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. — MILTON. VIEGIL: interlinear oranslation by Hart and Osborne — 1 TO!, royal 12mo, half Turkey... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 sider
...generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful. First, we do amis* to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully Jn one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein... | |
 | Sallust, James Hamilton - 1860 - 338 sider
...PUBLISHED BY CHARLES DESILVES, 7H CHESNDT ST, PHILADELPHIA. We do amiss to spend seven or eight yean merely scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. — MILTOS. VIRGIL: interlines/ .translation by Hart and Osborne — 1vol. royal 12mo, half Turkey... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 sider
...this lofty aim, he rejects as inadequate the common modes of education then and still in vogue : " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping...together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might otherwise be pleasantly and easily learned in one year." Proceeding to develope his method of teaching... | |
 | George O. Cutler - 1862 - 152 sider
...complained of the wrong done in "spending seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." He proposed, for youths from the age of twelve to one-and-twenty, to find a spacious house and grounds,... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - 1865 - 130 sider
...studies. "We do amiss," said Milton long ago, — and Milton was a learned classical scholar, — " we do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping...Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily in one year." I do not believe the grindstone theory. I am not going to dispute the dodlrine, that... | |
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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... 
