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" Can there be any thing more ridiculous, than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language, when, at the same time, he designs him for a trade, wherein he, having no use of Latin, fails not to... "
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English Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher in English Literature

Henry Barnard - Teaching - 1876 - 524 pages
...language, when, at the same time, he designs him for a trade, wherein he having no use of Latin, fails not to forget that little which he brought from school,...to one he abhors for the ill usage it procured him ? Could it be believed, unless we had every where amongst us examples of it, that a child should be...
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English Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher, in English Literature

Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 514 pages
...language, when, at the same tune, he designs him for a trade, wherein he having no use of Latin, fails not to forget that little which he brought from school, and which it is ten to ono he abhors for the ill usage it procured him T Could it be believed, unless we had every where amongst...
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The Life of John Locke, Volume 1

Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Philosophy - 1876 - 516 pages
...language, when at the same time he designs him for a trade wherein he, having no use of Latin, fails not to forget that little which he brought from school, and which, 'tis ten to one, he abhors for the ill-usage it procured him ? " And he objected yet more to the way...
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Some Thoughts Concerning Education

John Locke - Conduct of life - 1880 - 386 pages
...language, when at the same time he designs him for a trade, wherein he, having no use for Latin, fails not to forget that little which he brought from school, and which it is ten to one he abhors for the ill-usage it procured him ? Could it be believed, unless we had everywhere amongst us examples / of...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...language, when at the same time he designs him for a trade, wherein he having no use for Latin, fails gathering-up of my mind to a concentration of all...diffused over the past twelvemonth ; all I have do ? The great skill of a teacher is to get and keep the attention of his scholar; whilst he has that,...
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A History of Education

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Education - 1886 - 376 pages
...language, when, at the same time, he designs him for a trade, wherein he, having no use of Latin, fails not to forget that little which he brought from school, and which it is ten to one he abhors for the ill-usage it procured him ? Could it be believed, unless we had everywhere among us examples of it,...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...language, when at the same time he designs him for a trade, wherein he having no use for Latin, fails fit of devotion in him, he threw off his clothes with...himself, according to the custom of the Mohammedans, ? The great skill of a teacher is to get and keep the attention of his scholar ; whilst he has that,...
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The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: I. in Nine Discourses ...

Saint John Henry Newman - Education, Higher - 1899 - 598 pages
...language, when at the same time he designs him for a trade, wherein he, having no use of Latin, fails not to forget that little which he brought from school, and which 'tis ten to one he abhors for the ill-usage it procured him ? Could it be believed, unless we have...
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Modern English Prose

George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - English prose literature - 1904 - 506 pages
...language, when at the same time he designs him for a trade, wherein he, having no use of Latin, fails not to forget that little which he brought from school, and which 'tis ten to one he abhors for the ill-usage it procured him? Could it be believed, unless we have every...
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English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Locke ...

John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume - Philosophers - 1910 - 460 pages
...having no use of Latin, fails not to forget that little which he brought from school, and which 'tis ten to one he abhors for the ill usage it procured him? Could it be believed, unless we had every where amongst us examples of it, that a child should be forced...
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