 | 1821 - 372 pages
...exercise is given up, out of a great number of boys, it is made by somebody." " I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long...can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...some degree of exaged praise. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not ipon oath." " I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long...can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pages
...powers, and splendid as his accomplishments undoubtedly were, was scarcely entitled to assert, that " Education " is as well known, and has long been as well known, as ever it can be."§ What a limited estímate of the objects of education must this great man have formed ! They who know... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 pages
...exercise is given up, out of a great number of boys, it is made by somebody." " I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long...can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pages
...good exercise is given up, out of a great number of boys, it is made by somebody. I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long...can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise, is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years than other children,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 430 pages
...exercise is given up, out of a great number of boys, it is made by somebody." " I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long...can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1826 - 524 pages
...to oppose such high authority to the following assertions of Dr. Johnson. • Education,' says he, ' is as well known, and has long been as well known...can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1827 - 458 pages
...to oppose such high authority to the following assertions of Dr. Johnson. " Education," says he, " is as well known, " and has long been as well known,...can be. Endeavouring to make children " prematurely wise is useless labour. Sup" pose they have more knowledge at five or " six-years old than other children,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...great number of boys, it is made by somebody." "I hate bv -roads in education. Education is as wefl known, and has long been as well known, as ever it can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 pages
...powers, and splendid as his accomplishments undoubtedly were, was scarcely entitled to assert, that " Education is as well known, and has long been as well known, as ever it can be." f What a limited estimate of the objects of education must this great man have formed ! They who know... | |
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Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. 
