 | John Milton - 1889 - 468 páginas
...wits of children to compose themes, verses, and 1 ' orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading...maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to bo , wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1889 - 344 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading...maxims and copious invention. These are not matters," he says, "to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely... | |
 | 1891 - 478 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading...untimely fruit : besides the ill habit which they get of wetched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms, odious to be... | |
 | Samuel Gardner Williams - 1892 - 438 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose verses, themes, and orations which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading...observing with elegant maxims and copious invention." The practice which he denounces as preposterous has, however, proved very tenacious of life, continuing... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1894 - 442 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading...observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention." What would Milton have said if he had seen boys of twelve years old required to furnish an analysis... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading...observing with elegant maxims and copious invention." The outline of studies he proposes includes nearly the whole circuit of learning — a curriculum of... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 604 páginas
...orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by longreading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. These are not matters to !,•• wrung from poor (tripling*, like blood nit of the nose or the plucking • •! untimely fruH... | |
 | John Milton - 1895 - 104 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading...striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of 5 untimely fruit: besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and... | |
 | John Milton - 1895 - 120 páginas
...verses and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by 25 long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and...striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of 5 untimely fruit : besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading...maxims and copious invention. These are not matters toe be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit. Besides... | |
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... that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies ' given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and... 
