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" I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known as ever it can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... "
Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr ... - Page 66
by Samuel Johnson - 1807
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The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ..., Part 2

1791 - 814 pages
...other children, what ufe can be made of it r It will be loft before it is wanted, and the wafte of fo much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expefted from precocity, and too little performed. Mifs • was an inftance of early cultivation, but...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...other children, what ufe can be made of it? It will be loft before it is wanted, and the wafte of fo much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid....expected from precocity, and too little performed. Mifs was an inftance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Prefbyterian...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Mifs .<.,-i.»ftx, was an inftance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Prefbyterian parfon, who keeps an infant boarding-fchool, fo that all her employment now is, * to fuckle...
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The Attic Miscellany, Or, Characteristic Mirror of Men and Things

284 pages
...other children, what ufe can be made of it f It will be loft before it is wanted, and the wafte of fo much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid....expected from precocity, and too little performed. Mifs — — was an inftance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little...
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Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 pages
...other children, what ufe can be made of it ? It will be loft befoie it is wanted, and the wafte of fo much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid....expected from precocity, and too little performed. Mils was an inflance of early cultivation ; but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Prefbyterian...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...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 ?...a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.' She...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1807 - 526 pages
...old than other children, what ^^ use can be made of it I It will be lost before it is want- 66. eel, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher...a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.' She...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, »hat u«e сим be made of it? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of no much time aud labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too uiuch ы expected from precocity, and...
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The Table Talk of John Selden

John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...then less is learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other." — Yet more, he observed, was learned in publick than in...Presbyterian p'arson, who keeps an infant boarding-schoool, se that all her employment now is, • ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.' She tells the...
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Johnsoniana..

James Boswell - 1820 - 382 pages
...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 ?...marrying a little Presbyterian parson who keeps an infant boarding-school; so that all her employment now is ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.' She...
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