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Page vii
... twenty years . When I first went as an assistant master to a large public school , about the time when the Public Schools Commission was beginning to sit , it occurred to me as an ardent educational reformer , that a cheap reprint of ...
... twenty years . When I first went as an assistant master to a large public school , about the time when the Public Schools Commission was beginning to sit , it occurred to me as an ardent educational reformer , that a cheap reprint of ...
Page xiv
... twenty - one , not needing a removal to any other place of learning . There is something strange in the idea of welding together the school and uni- versity , but it was more consonant to the opinions xiv INTRODUCTION .
... twenty - one , not needing a removal to any other place of learning . There is something strange in the idea of welding together the school and uni- versity , but it was more consonant to the opinions xiv INTRODUCTION .
Page xv
... twenty - one ; the ordinary length of the aca- demical course being seven years from entrance to the degree of M.A. So that his proposal is not so much to suppress the university as the school . Doubtless he saw little hope of reforming ...
... twenty - one ; the ordinary length of the aca- demical course being seven years from entrance to the degree of M.A. So that his proposal is not so much to suppress the university as the school . Doubtless he saw little hope of reforming ...
Page xx
... wherein our noble and our gentle youth ' ( observe that Milton is thinking of the education of a gentleman ) ' ought to bestow their time in a disciplinary way 6 from twelve to one - and - twenty , unless XX INTRODUCTION .
... wherein our noble and our gentle youth ' ( observe that Milton is thinking of the education of a gentleman ) ' ought to bestow their time in a disciplinary way 6 from twelve to one - and - twenty , unless XX INTRODUCTION .
Page xxi
... twenty , unless they rely more upon their ancestors dead than upon them- selves living . In the which methodical course it is so supposed they must proceed by the steady pace of learning onward , as in convenient times to retire back ...
... twenty , unless they rely more upon their ancestors dead than upon them- selves living . In the which methodical course it is so supposed they must proceed by the steady pace of learning onward , as in convenient times to retire back ...
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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...
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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...
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