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... languages , and are never once told of the grammar of their own tongues . They do not so much as know there is any such thing , much less is it made their business to be instructed in it . Nor is their own language ever proposed to them ...
... languages , and are never once told of the grammar of their own tongues . They do not so much as know there is any such thing , much less is it made their business to be instructed in it . Nor is their own language ever proposed to them ...
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... language but their own . This , no doubt , saved them very much time ; but they applied themselves carefully to the study of their own language , and were early able to speak and write it in the greatest perfection . The Roman youth ...
... language but their own . This , no doubt , saved them very much time ; but they applied themselves carefully to the study of their own language , and were early able to speak and write it in the greatest perfection . The Roman youth ...
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... languages , fit only for learned men to meddle with and teach ; English is the language of the illiterate vulgar . Though the great men among the Romans were daily exercising them- selves in their own language ; and we find yet upon the ...
... languages , fit only for learned men to meddle with and teach ; English is the language of the illiterate vulgar . Though the great men among the Romans were daily exercising them- selves in their own language ; and we find yet upon the ...
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Rules for a Club established for Mutual Improvement | 9 |
Morals of Chess | 37 |
Public | 57 |
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