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" 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 and delightfully in one year. "
On Some Defects in Public School Education: A Lecture Delivered at the Royal ... - Page 26
by Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 67 pages
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The Parents' Friend; Or Extracts from the Principal Works on ..., Volume 2

1803 - 456 pages
...appear so many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasant 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 and delightfully in one year. And that which casts...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 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 scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 6

1824 - 604 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 scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise, easily and delightfully, in one year. And that which...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 17

Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 612 pages
...mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so in successful I ; first, we do amisse to spend seven or eight years, merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one yeer. And that which casts...
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The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of Grammar

David Irving - 1821 - 336 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 scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which...
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The Monthly critical gazette, Volume 1

1824 - 610 pages
...expresses himself in his plan of education :— " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years, mostly in scraping together so much miserable Greek and Latin,...learnt, otherwise, easily and delightfully in one year." We have not room to extract Mr. Black's chapter on Etymology (p. xvii); but it is a correct and useful...
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Precept and example, in the instructive letters of eminent men to their ...

Precept - 1825 - 302 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 scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 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 scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which...
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A View of the Money System of England, from the Conquest: With ..., Volume 27

James Taylor - 1828 - 212 pages
...works are in a state of forwardness, and will appear in succession, till the course is complete. " 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 and delightfully in one year." — Milton. PARSING...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...appear the many mistakes which have m.sde learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful; and 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 and delightfully in one year. — Milton. 1 282...
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