that the child should be instructed in the arts which will be useful to the man;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster or Eton in total ignorance of the business and conversation of English gentlemen in the latter end of the... The New sporting magazine - Page 2641853Full view - About this book
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...Spartan king, " that the child should be instructed in the arts, which will be useful to the man ;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century. But these schools may assume the merit of teaching all that they pretend to teach, the Latin and Greek... | |
| History - 1807 - 772 pages
...king, ' that the child should be instructed in the arts, which will be useful to the toan ;• since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...conversation of English gentlemen in the latter end ot the eighteenth century. But these schools may assume the merit of teaching all that they pretend... | |
| Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...Spartan king, " that the child should be instructed in the arts, which will be useful to the man ;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century. But these schools may assume the merit of teaching all that they pretend to teach, the Latin and Greek... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...Spartan king, " that the child should be instructed in the arts which will be useful to the man ;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...ignorance of the business and conversation of English gentlfemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century. But these schools may assume the merit of teaching... | |
| Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...Spartan king, " that the child should be instructed in the arts which will be useful to the man ;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century. But these schools may assume the merit of teaching all that they pretend to teach, the Latin and Greek... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...Spartan king, " that the child should be instructed in the arts, which will be useful to the man ;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster or Eton, in total ignorance of the business and conrersation of English gentlemen in the latter end of tlie eighteenth century. But these schools may... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poets, English - 1830 - 482 pages
...five years after, appears this comment : " Eheu fugaces, Posthume ! Posthume ! Labuntur anni. • " A finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century." — GIBBON. t "Byron, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, Alumnus Scholte Lyoncnsis primus in anno Domini... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - English letters - 1830 - 488 pages
...written five years after, appears this comment : " Eheu fugaces. Posthume ! Posthume ! Labuntur mini. * " A finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century." — GIBBON. t " Byron, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, Alumnus Schölte Lyoncnsis primus in anno Domini... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1830 - 532 pages
...comment: « Eheu fugaces, Poetbume ! Posllmme ! Labuntur anui. * " A finished scholar may emerge from (he head of Westminster or Eton in total ignorance of...gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century." — Gibbon. t * Byron, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, Alumnus Scholœ Lyouensis primus in anno Domini... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 576 pages
...finished scholar may emerge from the bead of Westminster or Eton in total ignorance of the busineie and- conversation of English gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century." — GIBBON. t " Byron, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, Alumnu* Schol» Lyonensis primus in anno Domini... | |
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