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... ancients , and the best dialogues of Plato are to be read to the youthful scholars . For here Milton says , ' the main rule and ground - work will be to tempt them with such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead ...
... ancients , and the best dialogues of Plato are to be read to the youthful scholars . For here Milton says , ' the main rule and ground - work will be to tempt them with such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead ...
Page xvii
... ancient and modern , they are to read some compendious method of natural 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 ...
... ancient and modern , they are to read some compendious method of natural 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 ...
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... ancient and mo- dern . ' By the age of eighteen Hebrew will have been learnt , and possibly Syrian and Chaldaic . Tragedy will be read and learned in close con- nection with political oratory . These , if got by memory and solemnly ...
... ancient and mo- dern . ' By the age of eighteen Hebrew will have been learnt , and possibly Syrian and Chaldaic . Tragedy will be read and learned in close con- nection with political oratory . These , if got by memory and solemnly ...
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... ancient and modern stratagems , tactics , and warlike maxims , they may , as it were , out of a long war come forth renowned and perfect commanders in the service of their country . ' Mil- ton had good reason to desire the formation of ...
... ancient and modern stratagems , tactics , and warlike maxims , they may , as it were , out of a long war come forth renowned and perfect commanders in the service of their country . ' Mil- ton had good reason to desire the formation of ...
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... ancient and modern : and ere this time the Hebrew Tongue at a set hour might have been gain'd , that the Scriptures may be now read in their own orginal ; where- to it would be no impossibility to add the Chaldey , and the Syrian ...
... ancient and modern : and ere this time the Hebrew Tongue at a set hour might have been gain'd , that the Scriptures may be now read in their own orginal ; where- to it would be no impossibility to add the Chaldey , and the Syrian ...
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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.