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Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully…
Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully be attempted, for the hope of the flock. In a funeral sermon upon Mr. Ezekiel Cheever. The ancient and Honourable master of the Free-School in Boston. Who left off, but when mortality took him off, in August, 1708. the ninety fourth year of his age. : With an elegy and an epitaph upon him. / By one that was once a scholar to him. ; [One line epigram in Latin]
Boston: printed by John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1708
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I shall not presume to Dictate, upon this matter, or to Enquire, Why Castalio's Dialogues, be not Looked upon as one of the best School-Books, for the Latin Tongue, in all the World? Or, Why for the Greek, there is no more Account made of Posselius? Or, indeed why (to express my ⟨p. 24⟩self in the Terms of a Modern Writer) there should not be North-west Passage found, for the Attaining of the Latin Tongue; that instead of a Journey, which may be dispatched in a few Day, they may not wander like the Children of Israel, Forty years in the Wilderness. And why they should so much converse with the Poets, at that Age, when they read them, with so much Difficulty, and so little Relish. But I will venture upon it, as neither a Tedious Parenthesis, nor a needless Digression, to single out only Two passages of many this way which in my small Reading I have met withal.
I shall not presume to Dictate, upon this matter, or to Enquire, Why Castalio's Dialogues, be not Look'd upon as one of the best School-Books, for the Latin Tongue, in all the World? Or, Why for the Greek, there is no more Account made of Posselius? Or, indeed why (to express my ⟨p. 24⟩self in the Terms of a Modern Writer) there should not be North-west Passage found, for the Attaining of the Latin Tongue; that instead of a Journey, which may be dispatch'd in a few Day, they may not wander like the Children of Israel, Forty years in the Wilderness. And why they should so much converse with the Poets, at that Age, when they read them, with so much Difficulty, and so little Relish. But I will venture upon it, as neither a Tedious Parenthesis, nor a needless Digression, to single out only Two passages of many this way which in my small Reading I have met withal.
The first is this; I have seen this Experiment among others recorded of one that had a Number of Little Folks under his Charge.