 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 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 copious invention. These are not matters to be wrnug from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely frnit.' s Having... | |
 | Heinrich Schmidt - 1882 - 78 páginas
...wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations' which require the 'ripest judgment and are 'the final work of a head filled by long reading and...observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention'. He sees in it the attempt to pluck untimely fruit and deduces ') M's Pr. W. p. 99 b. - "-) ibid. p.... | |
 | Virgil, Levi Hart, V. R. Osborn - 1882 - 546 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 1882 - 1112 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 410 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." What would Milton have said if he had seen boys of twelve years old required to furnish an analysis... | |
 | Max Karl Gottschalk - 1883 - 402 páginas
...compose themes, verses, and orations' which require the 'ripest judgmeut and are 'the final work ofa head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventiou'. He sees in it the attempt to pluck untimely fruit and deduces ') M's Pr. W. p. 99 b. -... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 páginas
...empty wit« of children to compose themes, verge*, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, o from a world of woet,— The harth and grating strij'e obsemng, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to l>e wrung from poor •tripling!',... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 378 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...nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides all the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 376 páginas
...themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head tilled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims...nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides all the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - 464 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...fruit; besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarising against the Latin and Greek idiom with their untutored Anglicisms, odious to be read, yet... | |
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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... 
