 | John Locke - Conduct of life - 1880 - 386 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 sparedjn some cases. The question then will be, to... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...knowing what tenses and participles, adverbs and prepositions are, speak as properly and correctly ired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from t LOCKE : On Education. IMMORALITY. When men of rank and fortune pass away their lives in criminal pursuits... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1889 - 508 pages
...without knowing what tenses and particles, 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) as most gentlemen who have been bred up in the ordinary method of grammar-schools.... | |
 | Pierre Villey - Education - 1911 - 298 pages
...partiel pies, adverbs and prepositions are, speak as properly and as correctly (they might take in for an ill compliment if I said as any country schoolmaster) as most gentlemen who have been bred up in the ordmary methods of grammar-schools. » anciennes, il faut les réserver exclusivement aux savants (1).... | |
 | John Locke - Education - 1912 - 292 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 grammarschools. Grammar therefore we see may be spared in some cases. The question then will be, To... | |
 | John Locke - Education - 1922 - 294 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 grammarschools. Grammar therefore we see may be spared in some cases. The question then will be, To... | |
 | John Locke - Education - 1988 - 328 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...School-Master) as most Gentlemen who have been bred up 15 in the ordinary Methods of Grammar-Schools. Grammar therefore we see may be spared in some Cases.... | |
 | John Locke - Education - 1886 - 320 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...School-Master) as most Gentlemen who have been bred up 15 in the ordinary Methods of Grammar-Schools. Grammar therefore we see may be spared in some Cases.... | |
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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,)... 
