 | John Locke - 1812 - 492 pages
...who, without knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and prepositions are, speak as properly, and as correctly, (they might take it for an ill compliment,...most gentlemen who have been bred up in the ordinary rafettidds of grammar-schools. Grammar therefore we see may be spared in some cases. The question then... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 502 pages
...who, without knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and prepositions are, speak as properly, and as correctly, (they might take it for an ill compliment,...gentlemen who have been bred up in the ordinary methods of grammar-schools. Grammar, therefore, we see may be spared in some cases. The question then will be,... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy, Modern - 1823 - 488 pages
...who, without knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and prepositions are, speak as properly, and as correctly, (they might take it for an ill compliment,...most gentlemen who have been bred up in the ordinary r but plainly for, this way of learning a language ; for languages are only to be learned by rote ;... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Charities - 1830 - 480 pages
...who, without knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and propositions are, speak as properly and correctly, (they might take it for an ill compliment,...schoolmaster,) as most gentlemen who have been, bred upon the ordinary method of grammar tchoo1s."\ If this was the case in the time of Locke, when female... | |
 | Allison Wrifford - School management and organization - 1831 - 198 pages
...who, without knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and prepositions are, speak as properly, and as correctly, (they might take it for an ill compliment,...bred up in the ordinary methods of grammar schools. Grammar, therefore, we see may be spared in some cases. The question then will be, To whom should it... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1864 - 874 pages
...who, without knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and prepositions arc, speak as properly, and as correctly, (they might take it for an ill compliment,...bred up in the ordinary methods of grammar schools. Grammar, therefore, we see may be spared iu some cases. The question then will be, To whom should it... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1864 - 840 pages
...who, without knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and prepositions are, speak as properly, and as correctly, (they might take it for an ill compliment,...bred up in the ordinary methods of grammar schools. Grammar, therefore, we see may bo spared in some cases. The question then will be, To whom should it... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Teaching - 1876 - 528 pages
...who, without knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and prepositions are, speak as properly, and as correctly, (they might take it for an ill compliment,...bred up in the ordinary methods of grammar schools. Grammar, therefore, we sec may be spared in some cases. The question then will be, To whom should it... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 514 pages
...without knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and prepositions are, speak as properly, and aa correctly, * (they might take it for an ill compliment,...bred up in the ordinary methods of grammar schools. Grammar, therefore, we sec may be spared in some cases. The question then will be, To whom should it... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and prepositions are, speak as properly and correctly as most gentlemen who have been bred up in the ordinary methods of grammar schools. LOCKE : On Education. IMMORALITY. When men of rank and fortune pass away their lives in criminal pursuits... | |
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... and politeness in their language: and there are ladies who, without knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and prepositions are, speak as properly, and as correctly, (they might take it for an ill compliment, if I said as any country schoolmaster,)... 
