 | John Timbs - 1860 - 332 sider
...of obtaining a knowledge of language, wherefore he protests against " the preposterous exaction of forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations," as a way to obtain a knowledge of the language; for he regards them as " the acts of ripest judgment,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 404 sider
...conveying to us things useful to be knowru"- He therefore condemns as the chief mistake at schools "a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment." In his opinion the most rational way of learning a language is first to commit to memory the most necessary... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 428 sider
...instrument conveying to us things useful to be known." He therefore condemns as the chief mistake at schools "a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment." In his opinion the most rational way of learning a language is first to commit to memory the most necessary... | |
 | 1905 - 358 sider
...and Greek, but he would have held the same respecting English — 'is our time lost, * * * partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 sider
...is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to Schools and Universities, partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 sider
...once both school and university, and big enough to lodge a hundred and fifty persons." He objects to " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and not matters to be wrung from poor striplings like the plucking of untimely fruit." Vacations are to... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 sider
...once both school and university, and big enough to lodge a hundred and fifty persons." He objects to " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and not matters to be wrung from poor striplings like the plucking of untimely fruit." Vacations are to... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1871 - 932 sider
...is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention.7 These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1871 - 930 sider
...one-seventh of the time usually bestowed on their acquisition — which with most amounts only "to forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are acts of ripest judgments, in wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idioms." On such knowledge... | |
 | 1871 - 926 sider
...one-seventh of the time usually bestowed on their acquisition — which with most amounts only "to forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are acts of ripest judgments, in wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idioms." On such knowledge... | |
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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; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and... 
