British Education: Or, The Source of the Disorders of Great Britain: Being an Essay Towards Proving, that the Immorality, Ignorance, and False Taste, which So Generally Prevail, are the Natural and Necessary Consequences of the Present Defective System of Education. With an Attempt to Shew, that a Revival of the Art of Speaking, and the Study of Our Language, Might Contribute, in a Great Measure, to the Cure of Those Evils. In Three Parts ...George Faulkner, 1756 - 392 páginas |
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... because they can infpire virtue , but because they prepare the mind for it's re- ception . Just as the rudiments of those , from ⚫ which boys learn their first principles , do not directly teach the liberal arts , but prepare the way ...
... because they can infpire virtue , but because they prepare the mind for it's re- ception . Just as the rudiments of those , from ⚫ which boys learn their first principles , do not directly teach the liberal arts , but prepare the way ...
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... because punishments · were augmented in proportion as the public mo- rals were corrupted . + It would be an easy matter to prove , that in all , or almost all the governments of Europe , punishments have increased or diminished in ...
... because punishments · were augmented in proportion as the public mo- rals were corrupted . + It would be an easy matter to prove , that in all , or almost all the governments of Europe , punishments have increased or diminished in ...
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... because it is in the very remedy itself . ' 6 The antients knew the force and neceffity of the principle of fear , but they also knew how to make a right use of it . As only the few were to be allured to virtue by reward , the bulk of ...
... because it is in the very remedy itself . ' 6 The antients knew the force and neceffity of the principle of fear , but they also knew how to make a right use of it . As only the few were to be allured to virtue by reward , the bulk of ...
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... religion , the other when they are corrupted by religion ; an incurable evil , because it is in the very remedy it- felf . " Spect , vol . ii . No. 147. " where ◅where , when they are got into Latin , they 172 BOOK I BRITISH.
... religion , the other when they are corrupted by religion ; an incurable evil , because it is in the very remedy it- felf . " Spect , vol . ii . No. 147. " where ◅where , when they are got into Latin , they 172 BOOK I BRITISH.
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... because before we are well in- structed in the art of fpeaking , we are spurred ⚫on by an eager ambition of appearing in public , it has notwithstanding a foundation in the nature of things . ' But Cicero himself attributes the want of ...
... because before we are well in- structed in the art of fpeaking , we are spurred ⚫on by an eager ambition of appearing in public , it has notwithstanding a foundation in the nature of things . ' But Cicero himself attributes the want of ...
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Página 11 - ... 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; others betake them to State affairs, with souls so unprincipled in virtue and true generous breeding, that flattery, and court shifts and tyrannous aphorisms appear to them the highest points of wisdom; instilling their barren hearts with a conscientious slavery, if, as I rather think, it be not feigned.
Página 374 - Romans, and superior to each of those people in the perfections of the other. Such were our ancestors during their rise and greatness ; but they degenerated, grew servile flatterers of men in power, adopted Epicurean notions, became venal, corrupt, injurious, which drew upon them the hatred of...
Página 132 - ARISTOTLE tells us, that the world is a copy or transcript of those ideas which are in the mind of the first Being, and that those ideas which are in the mind of man are a transcript of the world. To this we may add, that words are the transcript of those ideas which are in the mind of man, and that writing or printing are the transcript of words.
Página 142 - There can scarce be a greater defect in a gentleman, than not to express himself well, either in writing or speaking. But yet, I think, I may ask my reader, Whether he doth not know a great many, who live upon their estates, and so, with the name, should have the qualities of gentlemen, who cannot...
Página 141 - If any one among us have a facility or purity more than ordinary in his mother tongue, it is owing to chance, or his genius, or anything, rather than to his education, or any care of his teacher.
Página 141 - Polishing and enriching their tongue, is no small business amongst them: it hath colleges and stipends appointed it, and there is raised...
Página 142 - Tis plain the Greeks were yet more nice in theirs. All other speech was barbarous to them but their own, and no foreign language appears to have been studied or valued amongst that learned and acute people, though it be past doubt that they borrowed their learning and philosophy from abroad.
Página 141 - 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...
Página 172 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind for want of English words...
Página 142 - Latin, at least, understood well by every gentleman. But whatever foreign languages a young man meddles with (and the more he knows the better), that which he should critically study, and labour to get a facility, clearness, and elegancy to express himself in, should be his own, and to this purpose he should daily be exercised in it.] 190.1 Natural Philosophy.