 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 1172 pages
...Doctor to M : - -• Aikin : "Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed Miss Aikin was an instance of early cultivation, but in what...terminate? In marrying a little Presbyterian parson, IF ho keep* an Infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now U ' To suckle fools, and chronicle... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old w ]187 was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate? In marrying a little Presbyterian... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pages
...another occasion he remarked : Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss Aikin was an instance of early cultivation, but in what...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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 534 pages
...Barbauld. " Too much," he said, " is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss Aikin was an instance of early cultivation ; but in what...did it terminate ? In marrying a little Presbyterian clergyman, who keeps an infant boardingschool ; so that all her employment now is ' to suckle fools... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old ^ boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, " To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer." She... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 628 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 ?...labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is * [Rogir Joseph Eoscovich (h. 1711, d. 1787), was a Jesuit, born at Ragusa, who first introduced the... | |
 | 1908 - 284 pages
...they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of itt It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste...expected from precocity, and too little performed." Dr JOHNSON, Boswelfs Life of Johnson . . . humming Students gilded Primers read ; Or Books with Letters... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...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 ?...labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much ia expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss [Aikin] 1 was an instance of early cultivation,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 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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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,... 
