 And 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...  The first book of Virgil's Aeneid - Page xby Virgil - 1827 - 81 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Colman - 1787 - 362 pages
...obje¿ts to themes and verfes as fchool exercifes, “forcing the empty wits “of children to a¿ts of ripeSt judgment, and the • “final work of a head filled, by long reading and “obfcrving, with elegant maxims, and copious in. vcntion.” But Surely fuch objc¿S1ions deny to... | |
 | George Colman - 1787 - 338 pages
...objects to themes and verfes as fchool exercifes, " forcing the empty wits " of children to a&s of ripeft judgment, and the *' final work of a head filled, by long reading and " obferving, with elegant maxims, and copious in" vention." But furely fuch obje&ions deny to the improvement... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...forcing the empty wits of children to compofe themes, verfes, and orations, which are the afts of ripeft judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and obferving, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. Thefe are not matters to be wrung from poor... | |
 | Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...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...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head well filled by long reading, and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 436 pages
...forcing the empty wits of children to compofe themes, verfes, and orations, which are the acts of ripeft judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and obferving, with elegant maxims and copious invention. Thefe are not matters to be wrung from poor ftriplings,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...forcing the empty wits of children to compofe themes, verfes, and orations, which are the acts of ripeft judgment, and the .final work of a head filled by long reading and obferving, with elegant maxims and copious invention. Thefe are not matters to be wrung from poor ftriplings,... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1807 - 540 pages
...our time lost ; partly in loo oft idle vacancies, given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the nets of ripest judgment, and Ihe final work of a head filled, by long reading and observation, with... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...preposterous exaction, forcing theempty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, I which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final...maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings,Jike blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit: besides... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...writers on this point of school compositions. Milton rejects ihe practice altogether, and calls it "forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters, he continues, to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 452 pages
...school compositions. Milton rejects ihe practice altogether, and calls it <• forcing the empty wils of children to compose themes, verses, and orations,...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters, he continues, to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of... | |
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