...itself is one of the results of humanism — of the humanities taken too strictly and exclusively. ' We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. ... A preposterous exaction forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and...

...mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first we do amiss to spend seven...much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned other wise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much...

...demonstrate the folly of devoting seven or eight у ars of the life of youth to the ' scraping together of so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year ;' and to shew that it was practicable to initiate the young student into science and language...

...a chamber-milliner, and measured his commodities to his friends. SAMUEL JOHNSON Life of Milton 1779 We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. Of education 1644 And for the usual method of teaching arts, I deem it to be an old error of...

...mother-dialect only, Hence 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 miserahle Latin and Greek as might he learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year, And that...

...mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful; first, we do amiss to spend seven...be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one yeae. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost partly in too oft...