 | 1882 - 698 sider
...training is mind training " ; and mere mind training, since long before Milton's day, has been but "that asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles which is commonly set before [children], as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docile age." To study, to... | |
 | Heinrich Schmidt - 1882 - 78 sider
...be practised in Milton's academy should begin indeed with the study of the classical languages, but 'that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles, which is commonly set before the pupils',4) is to be done away with. Miltou thinks it of great consequence that the pupils, when... | |
 | John Milton - 1883 - 80 sider
...desire of such a happy nurture, then we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullestWits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles which...tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a compleat and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously... | |
 | 1827 - 328 sider
...is to be established in every city, offering a wholesome and happy nurture to our youth, instead of that ' asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles...entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age.' Here will every stripling, bj the time he is one-and-twenty, have read more Latin and Greek authors... | |
 | Joseph Landon - 1883 - 458 sider
...for the actual business of life, and speaks of the dragging of the ' choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles, which...food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docile age.' Locke was also a strong supporter of the practical view of education. Rousseau too had... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1883 - 78 sider
...desire of such a happy nurture, than we have now to hale and drag our hopefullest and choicest wits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles which is commonly set before them as the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age.' And, after a couple of centuries... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1883 - 984 sider
...his senses, his understanding, and his passions to reason and to conscience. — FELLENBEBO. I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. — MILTON.... | |
 | Max Karl Gottschalk - 1883 - 402 sider
...be practised in Milton's academy should begin indeed with the study of the classical languages, but 'that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles, which is commonly set before the pupils',4) is to be done away with. Miltou thinks it of great consequence that the pupils, when... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 sider
...we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sow thistles and brambles, which is commonly set before them, as...food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docile age." In the same year (1644) Milton published the most important work he had yet written. It... | |
 | 1893 - 848 sider
...have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sour thistles or brambles which is commonly set before them, as all...food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docile age." It was a time of good, strong, plain words, — and Milton was a man of his time. Again,... | |
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I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war. 
