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... turning into commonplace language , which " any fellow may understand , " the verses of a poet , or the succinct prose ... turn the good into the inferior or bad , and to degrade literature . Moreover it is false . For the youth who has ...
... turning into commonplace language , which " any fellow may understand , " the verses of a poet , or the succinct prose ... turn the good into the inferior or bad , and to degrade literature . Moreover it is false . For the youth who has ...
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... turns of expression which must be resorted to , when translating into the verna- cular , leads the pupil to weigh words and phrases and idioms , and to decide as to the right and wrong , the better and the worse . Thus not only is his ...
... turns of expression which must be resorted to , when translating into the verna- cular , leads the pupil to weigh words and phrases and idioms , and to decide as to the right and wrong , the better and the worse . Thus not only is his ...
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... Turn everything to use which you teach , and teach nothing which you cannot turn to use . " This is a large question , and would afford materials for much interesting discussion were I writing a big book on method instead of a brief ...
... Turn everything to use which you teach , and teach nothing which you cannot turn to use . " This is a large question , and would afford materials for much interesting discussion were I writing a big book on method instead of a brief ...
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Simon Somerville Laurie. It may be advisable to turn aside for a moment from the main current of my argument to meet the obvious remark which all of us can for ourselves put into the mouth of the fossilized teacher , " all of the olden ...
Simon Somerville Laurie. It may be advisable to turn aside for a moment from the main current of my argument to meet the obvious remark which all of us can for ourselves put into the mouth of the fossilized teacher , " all of the olden ...
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... turn to use . All else is useless ; all else is positively hurtful . Here now enter the subsidiary rules of method : " Little at a time , and that little well . " " Little by little , step by step . " " Without haste , but without rest ...
... turn to use . All else is useless ; all else is positively hurtful . Here now enter the subsidiary rules of method : " Little at a time , and that little well . " " Little by little , step by step . " " Without haste , but without rest ...
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