 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...  The Quarterly Journal of Education - Seite 1221834Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton - 1725 - 372 Seiten
...Work of a Head fill'd by long reading and obferving, with elegant Maxims, and copious Invention. Thefe are not Matters to be wrung from poor Striplings, like Blood) out of the Nofe, or the plucking of untimely Fruit ? Befides the ill Habit which they get of wretched barbarizing... | |
 | Jenkin Thomas Philipps - 1750 - 388 Seiten
...Work of a Head fill'd by long reading and obferving, with elegant Maxims, and copious Invention. Thefe are not Matters to be wrung from poor Striplings, like Blood out of the Nofe, or the plucking of untimely Fruit. Befides, the ill Habit which they get of wretched barbarizing... | |
 | 1803 - 456 Seiten
...themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head well filled by long reading, and observing with elegant...nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit: besides, the ill liabit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom with their untutored... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1807 - 540 Seiten
...elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrong from poor striplings, l;ke" blood' out of the nose, or '" the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides c" {he ¡1Г haiiit Nvhich they get, of wretched " barbarising against tlie Latin and Greek ""idiom-... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 Seiten
...with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings,Jike blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit: besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 452 Seiten
...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters, he continues, to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit."* He makes no difference between compositions, in Latin and English, in verse and prose : he equally... | |
 | 1819 - 496 Seiten
...and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters," he continues, " to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit."1 He makes no difference between compositions, in Latin and English, in verse and prose : he... | |
 | 1812 - 494 Seiten
...and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters," he continues, " to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit. '•' He makes no difference between compositions, in Latin, and English, in verse and prose : he equally,... | |
 | 1824 - 604 Seiten
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings,...nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides the ill habit which they get of wrelched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 614 Seiten
...observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from young striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit, besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarising against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutor'd... | |
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