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TIROCINIUM:

OR,

A REVIEW OF SCHOOLS.

Κεφάλαιον δη παιδειας ορθη τροφη.

PLATO.

Αρχη πολιτείας απασης νέων τροφα.

DIOG. LAËRT

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TIROCINIUM.

Ir is not from his form, in which we trace

Strength joined with beauty, dignity with grace,
That man, the mafter of this globe, derives
His right of empire over all that lives.
That form indeed, the affociate of a mind
Vaft in its powers, ethereal in its kind,
That form, the labour of almighty skill,
Framed for the fervice of a free-born will,
Afferts precedence, and befpeaks control,
But borrows all its grandeur from the foul.
Hers is the ftate, the fplendour, and the throne,
An intellectual kingdom, all her own.

For her the memory fills her ample page

With truths poured down from every diftant age;

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