 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 страници
...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, "To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer2." She... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 страници
...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. Boswell's Life of Johnson, it. 407. HE that supports an infant enables him to live here, but he that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 454 страници
...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 ?...cultivation, but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a l1ttle presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding school, so that all her employment now is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 464 страници
...more knowledge at five er six years old than other children, what use can be made of it 1 It will bo lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...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 - 1889 - 504 страници
...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 l was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little presbyterian... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 страници
...they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it Î said more or less. It is the truth : eclipsed, not extinguished; and his death did eclipse ; it was [Aikin]* was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate? In marrying a little Presbyterian... | |
 | 1891 - 790 страници
...children prematurely wise is useless labor. 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. — Dr. Johnson. It is often well to pretend not to notice some actions of children. If we can overlook... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 492 страници
...wise,' said Johnson, '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.' Life, ii. 407. According to Mrs. Piozzi (Anecdotes, p. 24) he had persuaded Dr. Sumner, the Head Master... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 540 страници
...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 1172 страници
...the Doctor to Miss Aikin : 1 Too much Is expected from precocity, and too little performed Miss Alktn 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... | |
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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,... 
