School: A Monthly Record of Educational Thought and Progress, Volume 5John Murray, 1906 - Ed |
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Page 27 - English his pupil speaks or writes is below the dignity of one bred up amongst Greek and Latin, though he have but little of them himself. These are the learned languages, fit only for learned men to meddle with and teach ; English is the language of the illiterate vulgar, though yet we see the...
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