...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...reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention.7 These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or...

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...universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose theme?, verses and orations, which are the acts of ripest...reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention.7 These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or...

...the task of forming the pupils, who have acquired an universal insight into things and whose head is filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention, to be able write« and composers in every excellent matter. Thence probably it comes that the style...

...Universities, partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose theme*, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest...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...

...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...the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a heiid tilled, by long reading and observing, with, elegant maxima and copious invention. These are...

...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, verges, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by...

...themes, verses, and orations," as a waylto obtain a knowledge of the language; for he regards them as " the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of...observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention." He preferred physical studies to humane or moral studies ; but like Bacon, he protests against that...

...of obtaining a knowledge of language, wherefore he protests against " the preposterous exaction of forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations," as a way to obtain a knowledge of the language; for he regards them as " the acts of ripest judgment,...

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