...even this, but only the wrapper it is enclosed in. Even as Locke says : — " We do amiss 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 a very much shorter time/' There are so many Lawyer Snitch...

...unsuccessful : first we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. . . . And for the usual method of teaching arts, I deem it to be an old error of the universities, not yet well...

...unsuccessful : first we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much rth the magnanimity, the fortitude, and the meekness of More. Had Henry been a just and merci for the usual method of teaching arts, I deem it to be an old error of the universities, not yet well...

...mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; and we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. — Milton. CCCCXXXIII. NDEPENDENCE. — To be truly and really independent, is to support ourselves...

...Hartlib." In this production, Milton severely censures the practice which was then prevalent, of spending " seven or eight years merely in scraping together so...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." He then rapidly sketches ont a plan of education in general terms, taking in a vast range of study,...

...' the grammar alone by itself is tedious for the master, hard for the scho1 ' We do amiss 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 year,'—Milton's Tractate of Education, lar, cold...

...and so unsuccessful : first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together t are often to be met with among the polite masters of morality, criticism, and other speculation MILTON: Tractate on Education, 1644. I would first understand my own language, and that of my neighbours...

...school experience of most persons will confirm this statement. "We do amiss," said Milton, "to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." I was reading lately a biography of the late Emperor Napoleon. When about nineteen years of age, and...

...unsuccessful', in his opinion result from the very neglect of this fact. 'We do amiss', he says, 'to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year '. s) What hinders the progress most is the loss of time caused, partly by 'too oft idle vacancies...

...mistakes which have made learning generally so uupleasing and so unsuccessful: first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.' 2 The pupil shall not begin with results, but reach them by experience. He is not expected to construct...