Systematic Education, Or, Elementary Instruction in the Various Departments of Literature and Science: With Practical Rules for Studying Each Branch of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817 - Education |
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... Greek and Latin languages , is it- self a most valuable acquisition , and is an excellent prepara- tive for the exertion of the mental powers , in all other inqui- ries . The facilities , which a knowledge of these tongues af- fords ...
... Greek and Latin languages , is it- self a most valuable acquisition , and is an excellent prepara- tive for the exertion of the mental powers , in all other inqui- ries . The facilities , which a knowledge of these tongues af- fords ...
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... Greek , the Hebrew , and the Saxon - and those which are still in use in different states as the medium of social in- tercourse , such as the French , the Italian , the Spanish , and the Portuguese . With respect to living languages ...
... Greek , the Hebrew , and the Saxon - and those which are still in use in different states as the medium of social in- tercourse , such as the French , the Italian , the Spanish , and the Portuguese . With respect to living languages ...
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... Greek classics , without particularly trou- bling themselves with the study of the colloquial forms of speech . How many scholars are there , for instance , who never held a conversation in Italian , but who experience great pleasure in ...
... Greek classics , without particularly trou- bling themselves with the study of the colloquial forms of speech . How many scholars are there , for instance , who never held a conversation in Italian , but who experience great pleasure in ...
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... Greek languages . Pursuing the common road , he will begin with the Latin tongue . The first requisite will be an acquaintance with the grammar . Latin Grammars are almost innumerable ; but Owen's Lilly's Accidence improved , published ...
... Greek languages . Pursuing the common road , he will begin with the Latin tongue . The first requisite will be an acquaintance with the grammar . Latin Grammars are almost innumerable ; but Owen's Lilly's Accidence improved , published ...
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... Greek tongue , the scholar's attention will of course , be first directed to the grammar . The Eton and Westminster rudiments are the standard Greek grammars of this country . The former , being the more concise of the two , is the more ...
... Greek tongue , the scholar's attention will of course , be first directed to the grammar . The Eton and Westminster rudiments are the standard Greek grammars of this country . The former , being the more concise of the two , is the more ...
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Page 155 - thou not minister to a mind diseased ? Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow? Rase out the written troubles of the brain; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff, That weighs upon the heart
Page 162 - -Within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp ; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared,
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Page 193 - On her white breast | a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, | and Infidels adore; Her lively looks, | a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, J and as unfix'd as those. Favours to none, | to all she smiles extends, Oft she rejects
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Page 126 - an instance of a musical sentence, the following from Milton, in his Treatise on Education: ' We shall conduct you to a hill-side, laborious, indeed, at the first ascent; but else, so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects,—and melodious sounds on every
Page 167 - So am I.—Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.—Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
Page 196 - I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre, all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Of