 | Sir John Lubbock - 1903 - 314 pages
...since the time of Milton, who, in his letter to Master Samuel Hartlib on education, tersely 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 one year " ; for, as he truly... | |
 | George Benson Clough - 1904 - 148 pages
...himself in very early life an elegant classical scholar, he discourages too much devotion to such study ; "we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek." He desires such languages to be learned conversationally, and recommends " some preparatory... | |
 | Classical Association of England and Wales - 1904 - 266 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 casts... | |
 | 1904 - 268 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 Ijitin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1906 - 606 pages
...about twenty years before the foundation of the Eoyal Society, is urgently true to-day. He wrote : " 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." Later on Evelyn... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1906 - 624 pages
...about twenty years before the foundation of the Royal Society, is urgently true to-day. He wrote : " 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." Later on Evelyn... | |
 | Sir William Huggins - 1906 - 214 pages
...about twenty years before the foundation of the Royal Society, is urgently true to-day. He wrote : " 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 MICHAEL FARADAY, FRS BY A.... | |
 | SIR WILLIAM HUGGINS - 1906 - 230 pages
...about twenty years before the foundation of the Royal Society, is urgently true to-day. He wrote : " 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 MICHAEL FARADAY, FRS BV A.... | |
 | 1906 - 676 pages
...written about twenty years before the foundation of the Royal Society, is urgently true to-day. He wrote: "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." Later, Evelyn made... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 572 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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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. 
