 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 first book of Virgil's Aeneid - Seite xvon Virgil - 1827 - 81 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1848 - 540 Seiten
...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...elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not ma ters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit.... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 Seiten
...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 invenlion. These are not ma ters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...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...maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 Seiten
...vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wiU of children to compose themes, verses, and orations,...maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 Seiten
...universities: partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themea, versea, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head titled by lung reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 Seiten
...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...maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit. *... | |
 | Edward Copleston, William James Copleston - 1851 - 374 Seiten
...classics. Their opinions the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and positions. °' n orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and...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... | |
 | Edward Copleston, William James Copleston - 1851 - 438 Seiten
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and positions. °* " orations, which are the acte of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 Seiten
...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...maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood flowing out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 Seiten
...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...filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxima and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out... | |
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