 Lectures were once useful ; but now, when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. If your attention fails, and you miss a part of the lecture, it is lost; you cannot go back as you do upon a book.  The Annual biography and obituary - Sida 3421837Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 sidor
...in those Colleges where instruction is chiefly conveyed by lectures. JOHNSON. " Lectures were once useful ; but now, when all can read, and books are...attention fails, and you miss a part of the lecture, it is lost; you cannot go back as you do upon a book." Dr. Scott agreed with him. " But yet (said 1)... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 sidor
...in those Colleges where instruction is chiefly conveyed by lectures. JOHNSON. u Lectures were once useful ; but now, when all can read, and books are...attention fails, and you miss a part of the lecture, it is lost; you cannot go back as you do upon a book." Dr. Scott agreed with him. " But yet (said I)... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 sidor
...Colleges where instruction is chiefly conveyed by lectures, Johnson observed, " Lectures were once useful; but now, when all can read, and books are...unnecessary. If your attention fails, and you miss a part of a lecture, it is lost; you cannot go back as you do upon a book." Dr. Scott agreed with him. " But... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 sidor
...that in those Colleges where instruction is chiefly conveyed by lectures. Johnson. Lectures were once useful; but now, when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. Ifyourattentiun fails, and you miss a part of the lecture, it is loit ; you cannot go back nsyou do... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 sidor
...edV>\ X Johnson observed, " Lectures were once useful; but now, when all can read, and books are s6 numerous, lectures are unnecessary. If your attention fails, and you miss a part of a lecture, it is lost; you cannot go back as you do upon a book." Dr. Scott agreed with him. • "... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 506 sidor
...in those Colleges where instruction is chiefly conveyed by lectures. JOHNSON. " Lectures were once useful ; but now, when all can read, and books are...attention fails, and you miss a part of the lecture, it is lost ; you cannot go back as you do upon a book." Dr. Scott agreed with him. " But yet (said... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 444 sidor
...in those colleges where instruction is chiefly conveyed by lectures. JOHNSON. " Lectures were once useful ; but now, when all can read, and books are...attention fails, and you miss a part of the lecture, it is lost ; you cannot go back, as you do upon a book." Dr. Scott agreed with him. " But yet," said... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 sidor
...in those colleges where instruction is chiefly conveyed by lectures. JoHueoM : " Lectures were once useful ; but now, when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. If vour attention fails, and you miss a part of the lecture, it is lost ; you cannot go back, as you do... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 sidor
...this opinion in his usual authoritative, we had almost said dogmatical, tone : ' Lectures were once useful, but now, when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary;'* and Dr. I ,uu ill had previously alluded to the abandonment of the professorial system at Oxford, as... | |
 | 1829 - 930 sidor
...into an exaggerated reprehension, and a caricature description, when he said, " Lectures were once useful ; but now, when all can read, and books are...unnecessary. If your attention fails, and you miss 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... | |
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