| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 sivua
...which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 sivua
...our proficieney therein so much behind, is our lime lost partly in a preposterous exaction, foreing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses,...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrnug from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 sivua
...which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head tilled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters... | |
| Oscar Browning - 1882 - 220 sivua
...must proceed from the easier to the more difficult. We are warned against " a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of the ripest judgment." Matters were indeed far worse in Milton's time than they arc now in this respect.... | |
| Virgil, Levi Hart, V. R. Osborn - 1882 - 546 sivua
...empty wits of children to compooe "hemes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgement, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copioiu invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor rtriplings, like blood out of the nose,... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1886 - 550 sivua
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| 1882 - 1112 sivua
...children to cnmposc themes, verses, and onitions, wTiich arc acts of ripest judgment, and the final wurk of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions.' 3 Diguitas is one of the synonyms for axiom. This use of the word goes back as tur as the times of... | |
| Oscar Browning - 1882 - 226 sivua
...to the more difficult. We are warned > ** against 'a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits I of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of the ripest judgment.' Matters were indeed far worse in Milton's time than they are now in this respect.... | |
| Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1910 - 360 sivua
...in one year." He especially stigmatizes, as Locke did later, the formal work in Latin composition, " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...work of a head filled by long reading and observing." An Encyclopaedic but Humanistic Program. — It is not, however, the study of classics in itself that... | |
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