 | George Colman - 1787 - 362 pages
...to themts and verfet as fchool exercifes, " forcing the empty wits " of children to acls of ripeft judgment, and the " final work of a head filled, by long reading and " obferving, with elegant maxims, and copious in«« vention." But furely fuch objections deny to the... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...forcing the empty wits of children to compofe themes, verfes, and orations, which are the afts of ripeft judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and obferving, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. Thefe are not matters to be wrung from poor... | |
 | Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...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...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head well filled by long reading, and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...forcing the empty wits of children to compofe themes, verfes, and orations, which are the acts of ripeft judgment, and the .final work of a head filled by long reading and obferving, with elegant maxims and copious invention. Thefe are not matters to be wrung from poor ftriplings,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1807 - 542 pages
...exaction, ""7fbfcing ine empty wits of diildren to "Wmipose thumts, verses, and orations, "" Hvhich are the acts- of ripest judgment, and " the final work of a head filled,' by long " Wading • and observation, with elegant " rhaxims and copious invention. These " are not iimttcrs... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities: partlyina preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, I which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...writers on this point of school compositions. Milton rejects ihe practice altogether, and calls it "forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters, be continues, to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of... | |
 | Classical philology - 1819 - 496 pages
...writers on this point of school compositions. Milton rejects the practice altogether, and calls it " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,....acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head tilled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters,"... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...altogether, and calls it "forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and ora« tions, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters, he continues, to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of... | |
 | Edward Copleston - Edinburgh review - 1810 - 208 pages
...the empty " wits of children to compofe themes, verfes, and " orations, which are the acts of ripeft judgment, ".and the final work of a head filled, by long " reading and obferving, with elegant maxims " and copious inventions. Thefe are not matters, " he continues, to... | |
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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... 
