 Our schools are in the lowest order — the instructors want instruction ; and through a long shameful neglect of all the arts and sciences, our common speech is extremely corrupt, and the evidences of a bad taste, both as to thought and language, are...  The New York Annual Register - Stran 238uredili: - 1832Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Smith - 1757 - 296 strani
...Our Schools are in the loweft Order ; the Inftructors want Inftruction, and through a long fhameful Neglect of all the Arts and Sciences, our common Speech is extremely corrupt, and the Evidences of a bad Tafte, both as to Thought and Language, are vifible in all our Proceedings, publick and private. The... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 strani
...of learning displayed a most humiliating spectacle. " Our schools," says the colonial historian, " are in the lowest order. The instructors want instruction,...extremely corrupt, and the evidences of a bad taste, both in thought and language, are visible in all our proceedings, public and private :" and, at that time,... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 160 strani
...displayed a most humiliating vpecsacle. "Our schools," says the colonial historian, " are in the lowes order. The instructors want instruction ; and through...speech is extremely corrupt ; and the evidences of a had taste, hoth in thought and language, are visihle in all our proceedings, puhlic and private." And,... | |
 | William Smith - 1829 - 438 strani
...would possess all the accomplishments desirable in the sex. Our schools are in the lowest order—the instructors want instruction; and, through a long...and the evidences of a bad taste, both as to thought «.nd language, are visible in all our proceedings, public and private. The people, both in town and... | |
 | John Brodhead Beck - 1829 - 76 strani
...it can have gained no character, for at the time Smkh wrote his history of the colony, he says : " Our schools are in the lowest order ; the instructors...of all the arts and sciences, our common speech is entirely corrupt ; and the evidences of a bad taste, both as to thought and language, are visible in... | |
 | 1834 - 404 strani
...spectacle. " Our schools," says the colonial historian, " are in the lowest order. The instructers want instruction, and through a long, shameful neglect...extremely corrupt, and the evidences of a bad taste, both in thought and language, are visible in all our proceedings, public and private : " and, at that time,... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Common Council - 1858 - 762 strani
...the help of a more elevated education, would possess all the accomplishments desirable in the sex. Our schools are in the lowest order — the instructors want instruction ; and throngh a long, shameful neglect of all the arts and sciences, our common speech ¡л extremely corrupt,... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1853 - 698 strani
...historian, in 1762, gave this unfavorable account of the intellectual condition of the colonists : "Their schools are in the lowest order ; the instructors...long shameful neglect of all the arts and sciences, the common speech is extremely corrupt, and the evidences of a bad taste, both as to thought and language,... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1869 - 868 strani
...in the lowest Order ; the Instructors want 1 Instruction ; and through a long shameful Neg'lect of the Arts and Sciences, our common ' Speech is extremely...Evidences ' of a bad Taste, both as to Thought and Lan' guage, are visible in all our Proceedings, publick ' and private. "The People, both in Town and... | |
 | 1869 - 468 strani
...Helps of a more ele' vated Education, could possess all the Accom' plishments desirable in the Sex. Our Schools ' are in the lowest Order ; the Instructors...Instruction ; and through a long shameful Neg'lect of the Arts and Sciences, our common ' Speech is extremely corrupt, and the Evidences ' of a bad Taste,... | |
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