 | James Simpson - History - 1834 - 262 pages
...appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasant and so unsuccessful. First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year ;* and that which casts our proficiency so much behind is, our time lost in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | James Simpson - History - 1834 - 262 pages
...appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasant and so unsuccessful. First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one ijear ;* and that which casts our proficiency so much behind is, our time lost in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 976 pages
...appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein su much bebind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle... | |
 | Editor of "The family manual and servant's guide." - 1835 - 379 pages
...made slow progress ; for, he says he did " amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together as much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." To the benevolence of Thomas Sutton, an opulent London merchant, we owe the foundation of the Charter... | |
 | James Simpson - Education - 1836 - 288 pages
...appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasant and so unsuccessful. First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year ;* and that which casts our proficiency so much behind is, our time lost in oft too idle vacancies... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1836 - 2 pages
...appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so un pleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.^) And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1836
...appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful. First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | Schoolmaster - 1836
...appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful. First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost in too oft idle vacancies... | |
 | Lucianus (of Samosata.) - 1838
...Locke's System of Classical Instruction. " We dn amiss to spend seven or eicht years merely scTaping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully th one year." — MILTON. This method is a restoration of the excellent system of tuition advocated... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839
...appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful: and we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.— Milton. PXXXVI. Effects of Perseverance.—All th« performances of human art, at which we look with... | |
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Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily... 
