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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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His Work he Loved: Oh! had we done the same• Our Play-days still to him ungrateful came. And yet so well our Work adjusted Lay, We came to Work, as if we came to Play.
His Work he Lov'd: Oh! had we done the same• Our Play-dayes still to him ungrateful came. And yet so well our Work adjusted Lay, We came to Work, as if we came to Play.
Our Lads had been, but for his wondrous Cares, Boys of my Lady Mores unquiet Prayers. Sure were it not for such informing Schools, Our Lateran too would soon be filled with Owls. Tis CORLET's pains, & CHEEVER's, we must own, That thou, New-England, art not Scythia grown, The Isles of Silly had o'er-run this Day The Continent of our America.
Our Lads had been, but for his wondrous Cares, Boyes of my Lady Mores unquiet Pray'rs. Sure were it not for such informing Schools, Our Lat'ran too would soon be fill'd with Owles. Tis CORLET's pains, & CHEEVER's, we must own, That thou, New-England, art not Scythia grown, The Isles of Silly had o're-run this Day The Continent of our America.
Grammar he taught, which 'twas his work to do: But he would Hagar have her place to know.