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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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In our Age, none was reputed a more Excellent Latinist than Milton: and yet there are those who find passages in him, which are so ⟨image ?⟩far from Elegant, that they are not Proper Latin; they offend against the Rules of Grammar. There was not a more Elegant Writer of the Latin Tongue in these Later Ages than Strada; and yet how severely exposed, […] a famous, but waspish Grammarian, in a Book Entitled, Infamia Famiani Stradae?
In our Age, none was reputed a more Excellent Latinist than Milton: and yet there are those who find passages in him, which are so ⟨image ?⟩far from Elegant, that they are not Proper Latin; they offend against the Rules of Grammar. There was not a more Elegant Writer of the Latin Tongue in these Later Ages than Strada; and yet how severely exposed, 〈…〉 a famous, but waspish Grammarian, in a Book Entitled, Infamia Famiani Stradae?
The Grammarians have Escaped as little as their Authors. Futschius who publishes them, yet is forced sometimes to Disparage them. And Priscian himself, of whose Head we are so tender, yet in his very first Lines, hardly keeps out of Barbarisms. When Valla and Erasmus, and Li•a•er have done their best, Sanctius comes, and then Schioppius, and will have us know, they have scarce done any thing at all.
The Grammar now taught in our Schools goes under the Name of Lilies; tho' in his own time, he modestly declined the honour of it; and it is well known, that the English Rudiments were done by Colet, the Syntaxis was done by Erasmus, and other parts by other hands. Even this Grammar is not without its Faults; and besides other just Exceptions against persisting in the use of it, and thereby prolonging the Reign of the Ferula, which cannot be heard; (Inexorable Custom will not hear them!) there are those who find it not free from Solecisms.