 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 pages
...time defy, " As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing...lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures : — You might teach- making of shoes by lectures !" At night... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 486 pages
...off wine, he had, from that period, continued to abstain from it, and drank only water or lemonade. Talking of education, " People have nowadays (said...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach chymistry by lectures. You might teach making of shoes by lectures!" I told him... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 458 pages
...: " 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, 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 - 1824 - 474 pages
...MACBETH, Act iv. Sc. i. " Thy crown does sear," &c. See also Cough's Camden, Tol. iii. p. 396. IB] Talking of education, " People have now^a-days (said...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pages
...from an intentional lying that there is so much falsehood in the world." Talking of instruction, " People have now-adays (said he) got a strange opinion...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach chemistry by lectures ; you might teach making of shoes by lectures !" He allowed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 430 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...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures !" At night... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 432 pages
...four : That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the Inbour'd mole away : While self-dependent "power can time defy> As rocks resist...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures !" At night... | |
 | 1829 - 930 pages
...a part of a lecture, it is lost; you cannot go back, as you do upon a book. People have now-a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught...know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, excepting where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chemistry by lectures — you might teach... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...four: " That trade's proud empire hastes to swiA decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away: While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach chymistry by lectures: — you might teach making shoes by lectures!" At night... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...four: " That trade's prond empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away: While n, exclaimed, " No, no! I am against the Dockers3;...them die of thirst. They shall not have a drop !" shown. You may teach chyrnistry by lectures: — you might teach making shoes by lectures !" At night... | |
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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... 
