| 1848 - 802 páginas
...— eh — tee, compose the sound catf Don't they rather compose the sound sce-eh-te, or 2N ceaty ! How can a system of education flourish that begins...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? Kb wonder that the horn-book is the despair of mothers !" From this instance, the reader will perceive... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton - 1849 - 656 páginas
...Don't they rather compose the sound see — eh — le, orceaty? How can a system of education nourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict? No wonder that the horn-book is the despair of mothers!" From this instance, the reader will perceive... | |
| 1873 - 536 páginas
...should be rejected. Its loss would do no harm, but much good." Let us reject it, then, by all means. How can a system of education flourish that begins...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict? " Rev. DP LINDSLEY, in the " Rapid Writer," for Oct., 1872, advocates a " simplification of our orthography."... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1860 - 420 páginas
...rather compose the sound seeeh-te or ceaty ? How can a system of education flourish that begins with so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? No wonder that the hornbook is the despair of mothers ! " From this instance, the reader will perceive... | |
| 1885 - 900 páginas
...believe anything. It may be so ; still I doubt whether even such objects would justify such means. Lord Lytton says : ' A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? ' " Here is a chief source of the incapacity for thinking which academy and college students bring... | |
| George Withers (advocate of spelling reform.) - 1874 - 104 páginas
...us ? There is truth as well as satire in the remark of Sir Bulwer Lytton, in " The Caxtons," when he says : " A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? " " It is the universal testimony of teachers," remarks Mr. E. Jones, late Headmaster of the Hibernian... | |
| 1876 - 944 páginas
...believe anything. It may be so ; still I doubt whether even such objects would justify such means. Lord Lytton says, " A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? " The question, then, that will have to be answered sooner or ON SPELLING. later is this : — Can... | |
| 1876 - 338 páginas
...puzzleheaded delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system ot spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood....which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ?" "The greatest genius among grammarians," says Dr. March, "Jacob Grimm, but a few years ago, congratulated... | |
| 1877 - 468 páginas
...ignorance and chance, equally repugnant to good taste and common sense." Lord Lytton declared : — " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, w.hjch the sense of hearing suffices to contradict? " In December, 1876, and after a long debate, the... | |
| Isaac Pitman - 1878 - 354 páginas
...believe anything. It may be so ; still I doubt whether even such objects would justify euch means. Lord Lytton says, " A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? " The question, then, that will have to be answered sooner or liter is this : — Can this unsystematic... | |
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