 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 514 pages
...one-seventh of the time usually bestoweS on their acquisition — which with most amounts only "to forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are acts of ripest judgments, in wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idioms." On such knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...how it will become him when he is bigger, and whither it will lead him when he is grown up. LOCKE. Forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations. MILTON. To season them, and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering... | |
 | Education - 1878 - 1074 pages
...one-seventh of the time usually bestowed on their acquisition — which with most amounts only "to forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which arc acts of ripest judgments, in wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idioms." On such... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1880 - 436 pages
...impart. On this ground it is that he protests against what he calls " the preposterous exaction of forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters," he says, "to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the... | |
 | Education - 1910 - 756 pages
...case of many teachers who, after years of experiment, persist — to use the words of Milton — in " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment," a process which he compares to the wringing of blood from the nose, and "the plucking of untimely fruit,"*... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose theme?, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a he:id filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. odious to be... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...how it will become him when he is bigger, and whither it will lead him when he is grown up. LOCKE. Forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations. MILTON. To season them, and win them early to the love of virtue and true- labour, ere any flattering... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 558 pages
...gathered: 'And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...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 - English language - 1882 - 538 pages
...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 - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...gathered: 'And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...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... | |
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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... 
