And 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... The Classical Journal - Page 2431819Full view - About this book
| Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...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,...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head well filled by long reading, and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities: partlyina preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, I which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing,... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...the real opinions of two illustrious writers on this point of school compositions. Milton rejects ihe practice altogether, and calls it "forcing the empty...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters,... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...real opinions of two illustrious 'writers on this point of school compositions. Milton rejects ihe practice altogether, and calls it "forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and oraŤ tions, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading... | |
| 1824 - 604 pages
...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 orations, which are the acts of riper judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims... | |
| David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...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,...the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of ahead fill'd, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and .cop'ious invention. 1 hese are... | |
| Matthew Davenport Hill - Boys - 1822 - 264 pages
...Landlord, 1st series, vol. ii. t Milton, in his little work on Education, reprobates the practice of " Forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are acts of ripest judgment, for acquiring the minor qualifications of grammatical correctness, and tact... | |
| Precept - Great Britain - 1825 - 302 pages
...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,...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. These are not matters... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities : * partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of ' children to compose themes,...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by ' long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious in' vention. These are not... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters... | |
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