 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 strani
...following. After this tempest had subsided, I recollect the following par* ticulars of his conversation : " I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning...done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainmeat from a book. He'll get better books afterwards." " Mallet, I believe, never wrote a single... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 strani
...rely upon both in the point of a first education. — S. RICHARDSON. Pamela. GETTING A BOY FORWARD I AM always for getting a boy forward in his learning...him at first read any English book which happens to engage1 his attention ; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1921 - 332 strani
...forward with his learning ... I would let him a first read any English book . . . because you have don< a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book." " Sir, young men have more virtue than old men ; they have more wit and humour and knowledge of life... | |
 | George Allardice Riddell Baron Riddell - 1922 - 212 strani
...better. Dr. Johnson said that he would let a boy at first read any English book which attracted him, "because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have some entertainment from a book." He knew that ordinary men and women do not take to serious reading... | |
 | Félix François Boillot - 1924 - 180 strani
...Walter Raleigh. The study of English Literature. James Maclehose and Sons. Glasgow. 1900, p. 18. 2. " I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning...have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards. " Boswell's Life of Johnson. 3. This is also frequently the practice... | |
 | Chester E. Finn, Jr., John T. E. Cribb, Jr., William J. Bennett - 1999 - 688 strani
...even some comic books (That great man of letters, Samuel Johnson, argued that he would let a child "read any English book which happens to engage his...have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterward.") Books such as the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series are not great... | |
 | Steven R. Fischer - 2004 - 388 strani
...forever on the hunt after fresh insights. Yet Dr Johnson appreciated reading's greater horizons, too. 'I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning;...have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards'. To be sure, 'I would put a child into a library (where no unfit... | |
 | Thomas F. Bonnell - 2008 - 403 strani
...more charitable view of books and the young might have counted it an advantage: 'I would let [a boy] at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention', wrote Johnson, 'because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment... | |
 | 1920 - 600 strani
...foundation " of knowledge he said " must be laid by reading." " I would let " a boy " read at first any English book which happens to engage his " attention,...'' brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll " get better books afterwards." " I would put a child into a " library (where no unfit books... | |
 | 1924 - 750 strani
...as the diameter of the planets. He was always for getting a boy forward in his learning for that was a sure good. " I would let him at first read any English...which happens to engage his attention because you have clone a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books... | |
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I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning ; for that is a sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention ; because you have done a great deal, when you have brought him to have entertainment... 
