...mother-dialect only. Hence appear so many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasant and so unsuccessful; first, we do amiss to spend seven...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,...

...so much •"miserable Latin arid Greek, as might be "Meafned otherwise, easily and delightfully, "'m one year. ' And that which casts our "'proficiency therein so much behind, is 'flour lime lust; partly in too oft idle vacan"-<cics, given both 'to schools and universi"''ties ;...

...mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend...easily and delightfully in one year. And that which cast our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given...

...distinguished names, Milton and Locke, • Milton says, f We do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and de.t h'ghtfully in one year.' And Locke says, * The ordinary way of learning Latin in a grammar school...

...mother dialect only. " Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend...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...

...mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so in successful I ; first, we do amisse to spend seven or eight years, merely in scraping...together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one yeer. And that which casts our proficiency therein...

...mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful : first we do amiss to spend seven...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,...

...to use, worse than that we have." And our Milton says, " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." How deep must have been the sense in Johnson's mind of the disgust produced by this mode of teaching,...

...intellectual. Milton complained that we did " amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together as much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned...otherwise easily and delightfully in one year;" and he might have added—as is in one year forgotten by the greater number of those who have thus imperfectly...

...mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful; first we do amiss to spend seven...which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is but time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities, partly in a...