 | Timothy Flint - 1830 - 696 pages
...him all credessero. might believe.' full of animal spirits, set down in a bright sunny day, with an heap of unknown words before him, to be turned into...the help of a ponderous dictionary alone. The object of looking into a dictionary can only be, to exchange an unknown sound for one that is known. Now,... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1834 - 352 pages
...process can be made much more easy for him. Says one of the ablest advocates of the Hamiltonian system, the object in looking into a dictionary can only be...to exchange an unknown sound for one that is known, and the sooner this exchange is made the better.* I would be as far as any one from throwing unnecessary... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1834 - 350 pages
...process can be made much more easy for him. Says one of the ablest advocates of the Hamiltonian system, the object in looking into a dictionary can only be...to exchange an unknown sound for one that is known, and the sooner this exchange is made the better.* I would be as far as any one from throwing unnecessary... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pages
...of compassion than a flne boy, full of animal spirits, set down in a bright sunny day, with an lienp of unknown words before him, to be turned into English,...dictionary alone. The object in looking into a dictionary cau only be to exchange an unknown sound ¡иг one that is known. Now, it seems indisputable,— that... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1848 - 556 pages
...intolerable. Nor is there a greater object of compassion than a fine boy, full of animal spirits, set down in a bright sunny day, with a heap of unknown words before...known. Now, it seems indisputable, that the sooner this exJ change is made the better. The greater the number of such exchanges which can be made in a given... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1848 - 520 pages
...intolerable. Nor is there a greater object of compassion than a fine boy, full of animal spirits, set down in a bright sunny day, with a heap of unknown words before...English, before supper, by the help of a ponderous dictionaryalone. The object in looking into a dictionary can only be to exchange an unknown sound for... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1859 - 1360 pages
...intolerable. Nor is there a greater object of compassion than a fine boy, full of animal spirits, set down in a bright sunny day, with a heap of unknown words before...known. Now it seems indisputable, that the sooner (his exchange is made the better. The greater the number of such exchanges which can be made in a given... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1859 - 392 pages
...fine boy, full of animal spirits, set down in a bright sunny day, with a heap of unknown words betöre him to be turned into English, before supper, by the help of a ponderous dictionary alone. The object in-looking into a dictionary can only be to exchange an unknown sound for one that is known. Now it... | |
 | Frederic Spencer - 1897 - 302 pages
...method in preparing his work. Sidney Smith has drawn a harrowing picture of the English schoolboy " full of animal spirits, set down on a bright sunny...supper by the help of a ponderous dictionary alone." Things have improved since then; the ponderous dictionary has given way to the special vocabulary,... | |
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Nor is there a greater object of compassion than a fine boy, full of animal spirits, set down on a bright sunny day, with a heap of unknown words before him, to be turned into English before supper, by the help of a ponderous dictionary alone. The object... 
