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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Parents first find a vast difference in the capacities of their Children; some of them are of quick and pregnant Wit and Ingeny; they easily receive and apprehend whatever is proposed to them; others are dull and heavy, and receive with difficulty such things as are offered them for their Learning and Knowledge. Some of them are capable of understanding some things, whereas of other things they are as uncapable almost as the veriest Idiots. The Experience of Schoolmasters next, is much the same: Some of those Children that are committed to their care, do readily learn and receive whatever they reach and inform them: Others with difficulty and much labour. Some can never be brought to learn any thing that is regardable, by all the care and endeavours in the World. Tutors at the University find the like variety among their Pupils. Some Youths hear their Lectures, and understand and remember the Contents of them; and if they be examined concerning them, will give a good and fair account of them: But others hear them, but neither understand, nor remember almost any thing of them; and if the same things be repeated over again, with all the clearness that can be expressed by words, yet they still remain without Knowledge or Understanding ⟨p. 20⟩therein. You may as well think to draw a Cable through the Eye of a Needle, as to impress Learning upon some mens Minds. Artificers and Mechanics speak the same Language, and give us the same Informations. Some Apprentices easily learn the Arts that they profess; others do it with great difficulty, and are but bunglers at the last. Non puede ser mas negro ell cuerbo que las, alas, saith the Spanish Proverb, The Crow cannot be blacker than her wings.
Parents first find a vast difference in the capacities of their Children; some of them are of quick and pregnant Wit and Ingeny; they easily receive and apprehend whatever is proposed to them; others are dull and heavy, and receive with difficulty such things as are offered them for their Learning and Knowledge. Some of them are capable of understanding some things, whereas of other things they are as uncapable almost as the veriest Idiots. The Experience of Schoolmasters next, is much the same: Some of those Children that are committed to their care, do readily learn and receive whatever they reach and inform them: Others with difficulty and much labour. Some can never be brought to learn any thing that is regardable, by all the care and endeavours in the World. Tutors at the University find the like variety among their Pupils. Some Youths hear their Lectures, and understand and remember the Contents of them; and if they be examined concerning them, will give a good and fair account of them: But others hear them, but neither understand, nor remember almost any thing of them; and if the same things be repeated over again, with all the clearness that can be expressed by words, yet they still remain without Knowledge or Understanding