 | John Taylor - 1839 - 258 sider
...appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful: and we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.— Milton. PXXXVI. Effects of Perseverance.—All th« performances of human art, at which we look with... | |
 | 1839 - 636 sider
...labor* of his lifo. * After bis return from Italy, Milton rented a Imnst: in a garden in Alderimerely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek,...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... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 sider
...all things the Greek student will most carefully avoid the barren puerilities of the Porsonian * " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Luiiu and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year."— Milton, letter... | |
 | 1840 - 544 sider
...humanity good service. Of all things the Greek student will most carefully avoid the barren puerili* "We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping logtlhtr so much miserable Latin and Ortek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - 1841 - 208 sider
...Philosophy, than is commonly learned at Oxford, in Four, or perhaps, even in SEVEN YEARS." 3. MILTON says, "We do amiss to spend seven or eight Years, merely...learned otherwise easily and delightfully, in ONE YEAR." 4. LOCKE says, " At the Entrance upon any Sort of Knowledge, every Thing of itself, is difficult ;... | |
 | 1846 - 670 sider
...Ca»b. London : Whittaker & Co. 1844. " WE do amiss," said John Milton, " to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek,...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one."* This was in the year of our Lord 1644. " I will frankly confess that I am sad when I reflect upon the... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 sider
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 sider
...appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful : and we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. — Milton. DXXXVI. Effects of Perseverance. — All the performances of human art, at which we look... | |
 | James Booth - 1846 - 172 sider
...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...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost in too oft idle vacancies... | |
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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... 
