...and so unsuccessful; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned...otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost, partly in too oft idle vacancies...

...and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned...otherwise 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...

...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...

...so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years, merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned...otherwise, easily and delightfully, in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost, partly in too oft idle vacancies...

...and so unsuccessful : first we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned...otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies...

...made in the old grammar, the method of teaching continued, till our own days, to be what Professor Pillans calls mechanical rather than intellectual....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 acquired...

...we have." And our Milton says, " 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 delightfully in one year." How deep must have been the sense in Johnson's mind of the disgust produced by this mode of teaching,...

...and so unsuccessful; first we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned...otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is but time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies...

...and so unsuccessful. First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned...otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies...

...was made in the old grammar, themethod of teaching continued, till our own days, to be what Professor Pillans calls mechanical rather than intellectual....in one year;' and he might have added — as is in orie year forgotten by the greater number of those who have thus imperfectly acquired it. What was...