 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...passage reads as follows : " People have now-a-days (said he) got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now I cannot see that...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach chemistry by lectures ; you might teach making of shoes by lectures I" In the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures ! " At night I... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...sky." Talking of education, "People have now-adays," said he, " got a strange opinion that everything " Provided, Sir, I suppose, that the company which...ignorant of the world, as to imagine that I am to p shown. You may teach chemistry by lectures : — you might teach making of shoes by lectures ! " о... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 pages
...Johnson, who, "talking of education, said : ' People have now-a-days got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures ' " (Boswell's... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1900 - 36 pages
...himself. " People nowadays," he once said to Boswell, " have got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now I cannot see that...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach chemistry by lectures — you might teach making of shoes by lectures." And it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.' Talking of education, ' People have now a-days, he room in which we were sitting, advancing towards...Hamlet on the appearance of his father's ghost, ' Look, You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures ! ' At night I... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 712 pages
...four: " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away : While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist...lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much 1 [On the iron crown, see Mr. Steevens's note 7, on Act iv. sc. i. of RICHARD III. It seems to be alluded... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...— " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away : While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist...good as reading the books from which the lectures aie taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 606 pages
...been so fine a poem since Pope's time.' Talking of education, ' People have now a-days, (said he,}got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught...lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures ! ' At night I... | |
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People have now-a-days (said he), got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught... 
