| 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...finds iSimfelf fhrink into abfolute infignificance, becaufe he has nothing elfe to command refpect or regard, but a talent for fugitive poetry in a dead language. The prefent ftate of claffical education cultivates the imagination a great deal too much, and other habits... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...established in a place which is presumed to be a preparation for the world; and the head of a public school, who is a perfect miracle to his contemporaries,...nothing else to command respect or regard but a talent forfugirm' poetry in a dead language. The present slate of classical education cultivates the imagination... | |
| 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 916
...talent for fugitive poeli y in a dead language. The present stale of classical educalion cullivatcs the imagination a great deal too much, and other habits of mind a great deal too lillle ; and trains up many young men in a slyle of elegant imbecility, utterly unworthy of the talents... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...established in a place which is presumed to be a preparation for the world ; and the head of a public school, who is a perfect miracle to his contemporaries,...nothing else to command respect or regard, but a talent forfugitive poetry in a dead language. The present state of classical education cultivates the imagination... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...into absolute insignificance, because he has othing else to command respect or regard, but a talent т fugitive poetry in a dead language. The present state of classical education cultivates ic imagination a great deal too much, and other habits Г mind a great deal too little ; and trains... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...for the world; and the head of a Eublic school, who is a perfect miracle to his contemporaries, nds himself shrink into absolute insignificance because...other habits of mind a great deal too little , and trams up many young men in a style of elegant imbecility, utterly unworthy of the talents with which... | |
| 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...established in a place which is presumed to be a preparation for the world ; and the head of a public school, who is a perfect miracle to his contemporaries,...respect or regard, but a talent for fugitive poetry in a daad language. The present state of classical education cultivates the imagination a great deal too... | |
| Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...established in a place which is presumed to be a preparation for the world ; and the head of a public school, who is a perfect miracle to his contemporaries,...imagination a great deal too much, and other habits OD * of mind a great deal too little; and trains up many young men in a style of elegant imbecility,... | |
| Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...of our public schools and colleges, and (as has been truly remarked by a late eloquent divine* — " The present state of classical education cultivates...many young men in a style of elegant imbecility.") Alas ! if the evil was even limited to the " elegant imbecility," it would be no great matter (that... | |
| George Griffith - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...Smith, a man of experience and an acute observer, says in his Essay on Professional Education, — "The present state of classical education cultivates...imagination a great deal too much, and other habits of the mind a great deal too little, — and trains up many young men in a style of elegant imbecility,... | |
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