| Vicesimus Knox - Education - 1785 - 360 pages
...improvement. " Youth would have caufe to complain, if they were condemned to fpend EIGHT or TEN of the Left years of their life in learning, at a great expence, and with incredible pains, one or two lanage), I recommend that the fcholars week fhall be thus employed : Monday evening, in Latin themes... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...were condemned to spend eight or ten of the best years of their life in learning, at a great expense ks not when the beast conies to affright his early...Softness is for slaves and beasts, for minstrels and use but seldom have occasion to make use of. The end of masters, in the long course of their studies, is... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Education - 1927 - 56 pages
...ufelefs. Youth would have Caufe to complain, if they were condemned to fpend eight or ten of the beft Years of their Life in learning, at a great Expence,...and with incredible Pains, one or two Languages, and fome other Matters of a like Nature, which perhaps they would feldom have Occafion to ufe. The End... | |
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