| James Boswell - 1820 - 542 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 ?...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 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 ?...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 pages
...children prematurely niseis useess labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at re or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ?...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...is expected from precocity, and loo little performed. Miss was an instance of early cultivation, bat in what did it terminate ? In 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... | |
| 1821 - 372 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.'... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 376 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 - 1821 - 376 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? It...a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, yet if a good exercise is given up, out of a great... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 472 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- shool, so that all her employment now is, ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.' She... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 480 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 ?...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pages
...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...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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