 Sir, it is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. Sir, you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of...  Documents of the Senate of the State of New York - Stran 39avtor: New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1897Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 2003 - 552 strani
...You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the meantime your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both. — Samuel Johnson replying to the question of what should be thejirst lesson taught... | |
 | Bob Fenster - 2004 - 340 strani
...Noel Coward: "I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health." • Writer Samuel Johnson: "While you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both." • English politician Lord Chesterfield: "Take care of the minutes for the hours... | |
 | James Boswell - 2004 - 420 strani
...may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your backside is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt 'em both." I should have mentioned last Sunday that I met the worthy Doctor3 in St. Paul's Church-yard.... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 strani
...you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both." [121] On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house.... | |
 | Jon Elster - 2007 - 422 strani
...may stand disputing which it is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both."3 Again, flipping a coin may be more rational. Or consider the doctor who arrives... | |
 | Bob Fenster - 2007 - 354 strani
...day," he said. "Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." TTT IJuickness alone may save the day. "While you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first," the English writer Samuel Johnson said, "another boy has learnt them both." TTT British Rail was having... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1894 - 840 strani
...advocates of a new pedagogy would make only indifferent teachers if called on to apply their principles. Dr Johnson suggests as much in this rebuke ; he says,...literature. Now the demand is for the study of things, ar.d by some it is thought unphilosophical and almost useleM to study booki. Here as ever the truth... | |
 | 1920 - 600 strani
...stand disputing " which is best to put in first, but in the meantime " you are catching cold. " Sir, while you are considering which of two " things you...child first, another boy has '' learned them both." Though this is ignorance it sounds like bluff common sense, and when common sense alone is needed to... | |
 | 1922 - 502 strani
...you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the meantime your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you...your child first, another boy has learned them both. That, says our friend, is sound educational policy. And he would go on to berate school men for having... | |
 | 1924 - 750 strani
...you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the meantime your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both." He did not favour too great a concentration on literary studies. There was no need... | |
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