Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania, Ausgabe 2Francis Newton Thorpe U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 - 450 Seiten |
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... Latin tongue which he had studied in an elementary way in his childhood for one year in a Latin school . He says : But when I had attained an acquaintance with the French , Italian , and Spanish , I was surprised to find on looking over a ...
... Latin tongue which he had studied in an elementary way in his childhood for one year in a Latin school . He says : But when I had attained an acquaintance with the French , Italian , and Spanish , I was surprised to find on looking over a ...
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... Latin , without giving ourselves any trouble about our own tongue . " Monsieur Simon , in an elegant discourse of his among the Memoirs of the Academy of Belles Lettres , at Paris , speaking of the stress the Romans laid on purity of ...
... Latin , without giving ourselves any trouble about our own tongue . " Monsieur Simon , in an elegant discourse of his among the Memoirs of the Academy of Belles Lettres , at Paris , speaking of the stress the Romans laid on purity of ...
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... Latin and Greek are by them to be taught , the original idea of a complete English education was not forgotten , as ... Latin master of rhetoric , and recommends Julius Genitor for his eloquent , open , and plain faculty of speaking . He ...
... Latin and Greek are by them to be taught , the original idea of a complete English education was not forgotten , as ... Latin master of rhetoric , and recommends Julius Genitor for his eloquent , open , and plain faculty of speaking . He ...
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... Latin and Greek languages ; and at the same time instruct them in history , geography , chronology , logic , rhetoric , and the English tongue . " " The rector was also , on all occasions consistent with his duty in the Latin school ...
... Latin and Greek languages ; and at the same time instruct them in history , geography , chronology , logic , rhetoric , and the English tongue . " " The rector was also , on all occasions consistent with his duty in the Latin school ...
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... Latin master is to teach the same sciences to his boys , besides the Greek and Latin . He was also to assist the English master occasionally , without which , and his general care in the government of the schools , the giving him double ...
... Latin master is to teach the same sciences to his boys , besides the Greek and Latin . He was also to assist the English master occasionally , without which , and his general care in the government of the schools , the giving him double ...
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Seite 9 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life...
Seite 13 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Seite 173 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Seite 74 - An Act for the further security of his Majesty's Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants ; and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open abettors.
Seite 27 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line and in its proper column I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue upon that day.
Seite 162 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Seite 120 - I would have the managers of the donation to the town of Boston then lay out, at their discretion, one hundred thousand pounds in public works, which may be judged of most general utility to the inhabitants, such as fortifications, bridges, aqueducts, public buildings, baths, pavements, or whatever may make living in the town more convenient to its people, and render it more agreeable to strangers resorting thither for health or a temporary residence.
Seite 122 - England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble.
Seite 173 - Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country...
Seite 122 - ... to see ; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity...