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 Classical Journal - الصفحة 2431819عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...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,...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 - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities: partlyina preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, I which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing,... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...the real opinions of two illustrious writers on this point of school compositions. Milton rejects ihe practice altogether, and calls it "forcing the empty...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters,... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 874
...real opinions of two illustrious 'writers on this point of school compositions. Milton rejects ihe practice altogether, and calls it "forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and ora« tions, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading... | |
| 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...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 orations, which are the acts of riper judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims... | |
| David Irving - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...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,...the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of ahead fill'd, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and .cop'ious invention. 1 hese are... | |
| Matthew Davenport Hill - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...Landlord, 1st series, vol. ii. t Milton, in his little work on Education, reprobates the practice of " Forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are acts of ripest judgment, for acquiring the minor qualifications of grammatical correctness, and tact... | |
| Precept - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...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,...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. These are not matters... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities : * partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of ' children to compose themes,...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by ' long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious in' vention. These are not... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters... | |
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