 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...  Notices of the Proceedings - Page 326by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1858Full view - About this book
 | John Gill (of the Normal college, Cheltenham.) - 1876 - 334 pages
...and the study of Scripture. But nothing should be exacted beyond the power of the pupil, such as " the preposterous exaction of forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes and essays " on subjects which only those of enriched minds and ripe judgments can attempt. He also... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 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 ripest judgment, and the final work of .a head filled by long reading and observing... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...how it will become him when he is bigger, and whither it will lead him when he is grown up. LOCKE. Forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations. MILTON. To season them, and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 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 ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, did grow, Whilst Jonson crept and gathered * which fell from Shakspeare's which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing,... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 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, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing,... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1880 - 436 pages
...discipline which a language may impart. On this ground it is that he protests against what he calls " the preposterous exaction of forcing the empty wits...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 and observing,... | |
 | 1910 - 756 pages
...case of many teachers who, after years of experiment, persist — to use the words of Milton — in " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment," a process which he compares to the wringing of blood from the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...how it will become him when he is bigger, and whither it will lead him when he is grown up. LOCKE. Forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations. MILTON. To season them, and win them early to the love of virtue and true- labour, ere any flattering... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the 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 and observing,... | |
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