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... philosophical college , pub- lished in 1661 , the school part of which bears so much resemblance to Milton's scheme as to make it certain that Cowley in writing it must have had the former in his mind . Although these plans were never ...
... philosophical college , pub- lished in 1661 , the school part of which bears so much resemblance to Milton's scheme as to make it certain that Cowley in writing it must have had the former in his mind . Although these plans were never ...
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... philosophy , whereas by a private establishment such as he de- scribes the reform might be begun at once . We must remember also that the age of entrance at public schools is now what the age of entrance at the university was in ...
... philosophy , whereas by a private establishment such as he de- scribes the reform might be begun at once . We must remember also that the age of entrance at public schools is now what the age of entrance at the university was in ...
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... philosophy . After this they are to begin Greek , but the authors read have reference to natural science , which is at this period the staple of their education . When in their mathematical studies they have reached trigonometry , that ...
... philosophy . After this they are to begin Greek , but the authors read have reference to natural science , which is at this period the staple of their education . When in their mathematical studies they have reached trigonometry , that ...
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... Philosophy they may proceed leisurely from the History of Meteors , Minerals , plants and living Creatures as far as Anatomy . Then also in course might be read to them out of some not tedious Writer the Institution of Physick ; that ...
... Philosophy they may proceed leisurely from the History of Meteors , Minerals , plants and living Creatures as far as Anatomy . Then also in course might be read to them out of some not tedious Writer the Institution of Physick ; that ...
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... Philosophers , Orators , Historians , Poets and Princes all over Greece , Italy , and Asia , besides the flourishing Studies of Cyrene and Alexandria . But herein it shall exceed them , and supply a defect as great as that which Plato ...
... Philosophers , Orators , Historians , Poets and Princes all over Greece , Italy , and Asia , besides the flourishing Studies of Cyrene and Alexandria . But herein it shall exceed them , and supply a defect as great as that which Plato ...
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Page 3 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page xxiii - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 7 - ... grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees...
Page 1 - SCRIPTURES, &c. The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version, with the Text revised by a Collation of its Early and other Principal Editions...
Page 2 - The Missing Fragment of the Latin Translation of the Fourth Book of Ezra, discovered, and edited with an Introduction and Notes, and a facsimile of the MS., by ROBERT L.
Page 29 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Page xiii - ... forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Page 4 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page xxiii - ... horseback, to all the art of cavalry, that having in sport, but with much exactness and daily muster, served out the rudiments of their soldiership in all the skill of...
Page 5 - MT Ciceronis de Natura Deorum Libri Tres, with Introduction and Commentary by JOSEPH B. MAYOR, MA, Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College, London, together with a new collation of several of the English MSS.