 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1873 - 798 pages
...very imperfectly." — Cowltyt£tsayt. " Would not a Chinese, who took notice of our way of breeding, be apt to imagine that all our young gentlemen were...countries, and not to be men of business In their own ? "— Locke on Education. in vain to expect that the mere pedantries of school could inspire ; and... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1874 - 376 pages
...mistakes and faults they make in it. Would not a Chinese, who took notice of this way of breeding, be apt to imagine that all our young gentlemen were designed to be * Much confusion has arisen, as Bishop Dupanloup has observed, from the double use of the word grammar... | |
 | Samuel Barker (M.D.) - 1875 - 364 pages
...of attaining eminence in the world."f " Would not a Chinese, who took notice of our way of breeding, imagine that all our young gentlemen were designed...to be teachers and professors of the dead languages in foreign countries, and not to be men of business in their own?"J It seems an absurdity that sons... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 pages
...mistakes and faults they make in it. Would not a Chinese, who took notice of this way of breeding, be apt to imagine, that all our young gentlemen were...countries, and not to be men of business in their own ? 3. There is a third sort of men, who apply themselves to two or three foreign, dead, (and which amongst... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 pages
...mistakes and faults they make in it. Would not a Chinese, who took notice of this way of breeding, bo apt to imagine, that all our young gentlemen were...the dead languages of foreign countries, and not to bo men of business in their own? 3. There is a third sort of men, who apply themselves to two or three... | |
 | George Combe - 1879 - 896 pages
...edited by Robert Cox, with preface by George Combe. that all our young gentlemen were designed to bo teachers and professors of the dead languages of foreign countries, and not to bo men of business in their own 1 " Gibbon the historian remarks, that " a finished scholar may emerge... | |
 | John Locke - 1880 - 386 pages
...mistakes and faults they make \ in it Would not a Chinese, who took notice of this way of breeding, be apt to imagine that all our young gentlemen were...countries, and not to be men of business in their own ?'1 (§ 168.) We have been a long time in coming to recognise the importance of the study of our own... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 626 pages
...mistakes and faults they make in it. Would not a Chinese, who took notice of this way of breeding, be apt to imagine, that all our young gentlemen were...foreign countries, and not to be men of business in then- own?" The same author adds, (p. 255,) " That if grammar ought to be taught at any time, it must... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1885 - 386 pages
...otherwise have to pick up at random. See also M. Arnold : Schools, etc., p. 83. teachers and professors ot" the dead languages of foreign countries, and not to be men of business in their own ?" Locke grants that in some sciences where their reasons are to be exercised, difficulties may be... | |
 | Edmund Kell Blyth - 1889 - 428 pages
...imagine that all our young gentle1 Milton's Tractate of Education. 1 Locke's Treatise on Education. " men were designed to be teachers and professors of the...countries, and not to be men "of business in their own?" But the system remained bound in the fetters of ancient charters and the wills of " pious founders,"... | |
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Would not a Chinese, who took notice of this way of breeding, be apt to imagine that all our young gentlemen were designed to be teachers and professors of the dead languages of foreign countries, and not to be men of business in their own? 
