 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 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...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... | |
 | James Booth - Business and education - 1846 - 172 pages
...behind, is our time lost in too oft idle vacancies given both to Schools and Universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...reading, and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention." — MILTON, Tractate of Education. Nor has the condemnation of the established modes of... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 568 pages
...given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wils of children to compose themes, verses, and orations,...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wit« places, and get him stedfast invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...vacancies given both to schools and univcreiti« ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the emptj Stedfast of thought, Well made, well wrought Far...be sought, Ere you can find So courteous, so kind, ob'erfing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings,... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...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...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 - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in both misery and spile. invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...universities: partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themea, versea, doubt titled by lung reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 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...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... | |
 | Edward Copleston, William James Copleston - Bishops - 1851 - 374 pages
...classics. Their opinions the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and positions. °' n orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and...maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters, he continues, to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely... | |
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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... 
