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Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr ... - Page 66
by Samuel Johnson - 1807
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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...
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Johnsoniana..

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;...
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The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children ...

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...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

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...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 16

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.'...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 3

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...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volume 3

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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and ...

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...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and ...

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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