 ... 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 with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to...  The Classical Journal - Page 2391812Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...filled by long reading, and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit: besides, the ill liabit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom with... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters, be continues, to be wrung from poor striplings, like...reasoning against it. " By all means, says he, obtain, it you can, that your son be not employed in making N Latin themes and declamations, and, least of... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides the ill habit which they get of wrelched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1820 - 614 pages
...observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from young striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit, besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarising against the Latin and Greek idiom, with... | |
 | Precept - Great Britain - 1825 - 302 pages
...filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit : besides the ill habit which they get <of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit; besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...Youth smiled celestial. Milton's Paradise Lost. Compositions on any important subjects are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings; like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit. id. On Education, As when young striplings whip the top for sport, On the smooth pavement of an empty... | |
 | Classical education - 1829 - 188 pages
..." long reading and observing, with elegant maxims " and copious invention. These are not matters " to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out " of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit." F He then notices, like Ascharn, " the ill habit which " they get, of wretched barbarizing against... | |
 | Virgil - 1829 - 126 pages
...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters," he adds, "to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking untimely of fruit." We give no scope for such remarks as these in the species of composition required... | |
 | Allison Wrifford - School management and organization - 1831 - 198 pages
...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters,' he adds, ' to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking untimely of fruit.' " We give no scope for such remarks as these in the species of composition required... | |
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