 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 sivua
...other sources of information. Milton might well censure as a " preposterous exaction," what he calls " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which, 11 says he, " are the arts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 sivua
...easily and delightfully Jn one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost, partly in too oft idle vacancies given...exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose theme*, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 332 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 428 sivua
...instrument conveying to us things useful to be known." He therefore condemns as the chief mistake at schools "a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment." In his opinion the most rational way of learning a language is first to commit to memory the most necessary... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 404 sivua
...conveying to us things useful to be knowru"- He therefore condemns as the chief mistake at schools "a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment." In his opinion the most rational way of learning a language is first to commit to memory the most necessary... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 sivua
...once both school and university, and big enough to lodge a hundred and fifty persons." He objects to " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and not matters to be wrung from poor striplings like the plucking of untimely fruit." Vacations are to... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 sivua
...once both school and university, and big enough to lodge a hundred and fifty persons." He objects to " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and not matters to be wrung from poor striplings like the plucking of untimely fruit." Vacations are to... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1871 - 930 sivua
...one-seventh of the time usually bestowed on their acquisition — which with most amounts only "to forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are acts of ripest judgments, in wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idioms." On such knowledge... | |
 | 1871 - 926 sivua
...one-seventh of the time usually bestowed on their acquisition — which with most amounts only "to forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are acts of ripest judgments, in wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idioms." On such knowledge... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1872 - 538 sivua
...much behind, is our time lost v.'.nK 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 or-ati.ins, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final io k rf a head filled by long reading... | |
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... forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. 
