 | English literature - 1810 - 554 pages
...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 - 520 pages
...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 - 916 pages
...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 - 464 pages
...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 - English literature - 1844 - 348 pages
...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 - Catholic emancipation - 1852 - 246 pages
...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... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 498 pages
...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 - English essays - 1854 - 296 pages
...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 - English fiction - 1854 - 540 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1854 - 312 pages
...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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... often make no figure in the world; and why other lads, who are passed over without notice, turn out to be valuable, important men. The test established in the world, is widely different from that established in a place which is presumed to be a preparation... 
