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... Grammar , Logic , and Rhetoric , was now substituted the living substance of thought , and the intel- lectual gymnastic of the schools gave place to the free play of mind once more striving to bring itself into contact with nature . The ...
... Grammar , Logic , and Rhetoric , was now substituted the living substance of thought , and the intel- lectual gymnastic of the schools gave place to the free play of mind once more striving to bring itself into contact with nature . The ...
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... grammar schools of their time , and a much better organisation . The superiority of the Protestant schools lay in the greater freedom of spirit which characterised them , and the greater regard paid to the substance of literature . The ...
... grammar schools of their time , and a much better organisation . The superiority of the Protestant schools lay in the greater freedom of spirit which characterised them , and the greater regard paid to the substance of literature . The ...
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... grammar rules , the cruel discipline , were loud and long , and proceeded from men of the highest intel- lectual standing . It has to be remembered , however , that all Europe had been embroiled in civil and ecclesi- astical contentions ...
... grammar rules , the cruel discipline , were loud and long , and proceeded from men of the highest intel- lectual standing . It has to be remembered , however , that all Europe had been embroiled in civil and ecclesi- astical contentions ...
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... grammar , infinitely prolix , perplexed , and obscure , and for the most part useless . Boys are stuffed with vocabularies without associating words with things , or indeed with one another syntactically . ' It had been 1 Preface to vol ...
... grammar , infinitely prolix , perplexed , and obscure , and for the most part useless . Boys are stuffed with vocabularies without associating words with things , or indeed with one another syntactically . ' It had been 1 Preface to vol ...
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... Grammar , and wrote an elementary book for his pupils , which was afterwards published at Prague in 1616 ( Grammaticae facilioris praecepta ) . In this year he was ordained to the pastorate , but whether this caused him to give up the ...
... Grammar , and wrote an elementary book for his pupils , which was afterwards published at Prague in 1616 ( Grammaticae facilioris praecepta ) . In this year he was ordained to the pastorate , but whether this caused him to give up the ...
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