...sky." Talking of education, " People have now-adays," said he, " got a strange opinion that everything y person unless he is strongly marked, such as George...who has a wen upon his face, and who therefore is might teach making of shoes by lectures ! " At night I supped with him at the Mitre tavern, that we...

...passage reads as follows : " People have now-a-days (said he) got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now I cannot see that...be shown. You may teach chemistry by lectures ; you might teach making of shoes by lectures I" In the same (IV, 106) Johnson, with unusual consistency,...

...sky." Talking of education, "People have now-adays," said he, " got a strange opinion that everything " Provided, Sir, I suppose, that the company which...to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman might teach making of shoes by lectures ! " о leave off wine, he had, from that period, coninued to...

...himself. " People nowadays," he once said to Boswell, " have got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now I cannot see that...shown. You may teach chemistry by lectures — you might teach making of shoes by lectures." And it is no less depressing (though no doubt it is salutary)...

...Johnson, who, "talking of education, said : ' People have now-a-days got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures ' " (Boswell's Johnson, ii.,...

...sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures ! " At...

...imperious system improve, no sternly authorised teacher instruct. "I cannot see," said Dr Johnson, " that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken." And the serious critic will carry away from a university little that will directly assist his craft....

...imperious system improve, no sternly authorised teacher instruct. " I cannot see," said Dr Johnson, " that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken." And the serious critic will carry away from a university little that will directly assist his craft....

...As rocks resist the billows and the sky.' Talking of education, ' People have now a-days, (said he,) which we were sitting, advancing towards us, — he...Hamlet on the appearance of his father's ghost, ' Look, shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures ! ' At...

...sky." Talking of education, " People have nowadays (said he) got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...shown. You may teach chemistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures ! " At night I supped with him at the Mitre Tavern, that we...