 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1875 - 540 páginas
...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...together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be i : learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.* And that which casts our proficiency therein... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 páginas
...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...much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.* And that which casts our proficiency therein so much... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...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...much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 páginas
...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...much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1912 - 314 páginas
...grow into hatred and contempt of learning." He claims that "we do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." He especially stigmatizes, as Locke did later, the... | |
 | Albert Ernest Roberts, A. Barter - 1913 - 288 páginas
...vernacular. Milton, some three centuries ago, complained that " we do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily in one year". His remarks are as true today as ever they were. Literary appreciation... | |
 | John Milton - 1915 - 284 páginas
...this nation perishes ' {Bohn 3. 462). Among the most glaring defects he mentions the waste of time — 'seven or eight years merely in scraping together...much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year ' ; and the needlessly long vacations in schools and... | |
 | 1925 - 452 páginas
..."Essay on Education" shows how early this educational principle was applied to the study of languages : "We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely...much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. . . . And for the usual method of teaching arts, I deem... | |
 | Robert Robertson Rusk - 1918 - 294 páginas
...was necessary we can gather from several references in the Tractate. " We do amiss," says Milton,3 " to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts proficiency therein so much... | |
 | John Marcellus Steadman (Jr.) - 1918 - 376 páginas
...rendered much of both teachers' and pupils' efforts futile; seven or eight years, it is said, were spent " in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." 4 Equally profitless was the study of the universities,... | |
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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 delightfully in one year. 
