Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour... The Life of Samuel Johnson - Trang 164bởi James Boswell - 1889Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
| James Boswell - 1820 - 542 trang
...more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...early cultivation, but in what did it terminate? In marry ing a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 384 trang
...more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can .be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...Miss » * » was an instance of early cultivation; butin what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Presbyterian parson who keeps an infant boarding-school;... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1820 - 266 trang
...more knowledge at re or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of be teacher is never to be repaid.'* The remain^ ler of this passage contains such an illiberal alack... | |
| 1821 - 372 trang
...more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...employment now is • To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.' She tells the children, ' This is a cat, and that is a dog, with four legs and a tail... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 376 trang
...more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...employment now is, ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.' She tells the children, ' This is a cat, and that -is a dog, with four legs and a tail... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 378 trang
...more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...employment now is, ' To suckle fools, and chronicle snail-beer.' She tells the children, ' This is a cat, and that is a dog, with four legs and a tail... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 376 trang
...more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, yet if a good exercise is given up, out of a great number of boys, it is made by somebody." ' To suckle... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 472 trang
...more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding- shool, so that all her employment now is, ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.' She... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 480 trang
...more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss who keeps an infant boarding-shool, so that all her employment now is, ' To suckle fools, and chronicle... | |
| James Boswell - 1824 - 458 trang
...more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, dog, with four legs and a tail ; see there ! you are much better than a cat or a dog, for you can speak.'... | |
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