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" And because it is deplorable to consider the loss which children make of their time at most schools, employing, or rather casting away, six or seven years in the learning of words only, and that too very imperfectly... "
On Some Defects in Public School Education: A Lecture Delivered at the Royal ... - Page 22
by Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 67 pages
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The Works of Abraham Cowley, Volume 3

Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 pages
...their trouble. And, because it is deplorable to consider the loss which children make of their time at most schools, employing, or rather casting away,...seven years in the learning of words only, and that too very imperfectly: That a method be here established, for the infusing knowledge and language at...
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The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volume 3

Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 pages
...their trouble. And, because it is deplorable to consider the loss which children make of their time at most schools, employing, or rather casting away,...seven years in the learning of words only, and that too very imperfectly: That a method be here established, for the infusing knowledge and language at...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 268 pages
...their trouble. And, because it is deplorable to consider the loss which children make of their time at most schools, employing, or rather casting away,...seven years in the learning of words only, and that too very imperfectly : That a method be here established, for the infusing knowledge and language at...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 246 pages
...their trouble. And, because it is deplorable to consider the loss which children make of their time at most schools, employing, or rather casting away,...seven years in the learning of words only, and that too very imperfectly : That a method be here established, for the infusing knowledge and language at...
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Prose Works of Abraham Cowley ; Including His Essays in Prose and Verse

Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 pages
...their trouble. And because it is deplorable to consider the loss which children make of their time at most schools, employing, or rather casting away,...seven years in the learning of words only, and that too very imperfectly : — That a method be here established, for the infusing knowledge and language...
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Prose Works of Abraham Cowley ; Including His Essays in Prose and Verse

Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...their trouble. And because it is deplorable to consider the loss which children make of their time at most schools, employing, or rather casting away,...seven years in the learning of words only, and that too very imperfectly : — That a method be here established, for the infusing knowledge and language...
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Prose works

Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...their trouble. And because it is deplorable to consider the loss which children make of their time at most schools, employing, or rather casting away,...seven years in the learning of words only, and that too very imperfectly : — That a method be here established, for the infusing knowledge and language...
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Instructions to Parents and Teachers Respecting the Use of the Elementary ...

Esq. Arthur CLIFFORD - 1829 - 142 pages
...VOLUMES. BY ARTHUR CLIFFORD, ESQ. It is deplorable to consider the loss which children make of their time at most schools, employing, or rather casting away,...seven years in the learning of words only, and that too very imperfectly.— COW LEY. OXFORD. PUBLISHED BY 1. L. WHEELER, HIGH-STREET; MESSRS. LONT.AIAN,...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 532 pages
...making rapid and even wonder* * It is deplorable to consider the loss which children make of their time at most schools, employing, or rather casting away,...learning of words only, and that very imperfectly."— Cowley, Essays. "Would not a Chinese, who took notice of our way of breeding, be apt to imagine that...
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Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, Volumes 7-9

1830 - 470 pages
...inspire !" " It is deplorable," says Cowley, " to consider the loss which children make of their time at most schools, employing or rather casting away,...learning of words only, and that very imperfectly." And according to the admirable Locke, a Chinese, who took notice of our modes of instruction would...
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