 | James Booth - 1846 - 172 páginas
...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,...observing with elegant maxims and copious invention." — MILTON, Tractate of Education. Nor has the condemnation of the established modes of education been... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...empty wit« of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, him uncut ; and that he came into the world with...nature changed her course in his beginning, which, barbarising against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms, odious to be read,... | |
 | A. R. Craig - 1847 - 408 páginas
...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 inventions. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...emptj wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, o kind, ob'erfing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 páginas
...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...copious Invention. These are not matters to be wrung front poor striplings, like blood flowing out of the im - , or the plucking of untimely fruit; besides... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1848 - 540 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...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 invenlion. These are not ma ters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, ility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be...rule of it had been so too! Many times he fell into barbarising against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms, odious to be read,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 páginas
...versea, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head titled by lung een a bye matter. I knew another that, when he came...over that that he intended most : and go forth and flowing out of tbe поде, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides the ill habit which they get... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 páginas
...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...out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit. * * * * " And for the usual method of teaching arts, I deem it to be an old error of universities,... | |
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... 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... 
