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a man to perform juftly, fkilfully, and magnanimoufly all he offices both private and publike of peace and war. And how all this may be done between twelve and one and twenty, leffe time then is now beftow'd in pure trifling at Grammar and Sophistry, is to be thus order'd.

First to finde out a fpatious house and ground about it fit for an Academy, and big enough to lodge a hundred and fifty perfons, whereof twenty or thereabout may be attendants, all under the government of one, who fhall be thought of defert fufficient, and ability either to doe all, or wifely to direct, and overfee it done. This place fhould be at once both School and Univerfity, not needing

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a remove to any other house of Schollerfhip, except it be fome peculiar Colledge of Law, or Phyfick, where they mean to be practitioners; but as for thofe generall ftudies which take up all our time from Lilly to the commencing, as they term it, Master of Art, it should be abfolute. After this pattern, as many edifices may be converted to this ufe, as shall be needfull in every city throughout this land, which would tend much to the encrease of learning and civility every where. This number, leffe or more thus collected, to the convenience of a foot company, or interchangeably two troops of cavalry, fhould divide their daies work into three parts, as it lies or

derly.

derly.

Their ftudies, their exercife,

and their diet.

For their ftudies, Firft they fhould begin with the chief and neceffary rules of fome good Grammar, either that now us'd, or any better: and while this is doing, their fpeech is to be fashion'd to a diftinct and cleer pronuntiation, as neer as may be to the Italian, efpecially in the vowels. For we Englishmen being farre northerly, doe not open our mouthes in the cold air, wide enough to grace a Southern tongue; but are obferv'd by all other nations to speak ex-. ceeding clofe and inard: So that to fmatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French. Next to make them expert in the usefullest points

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of grammar, and withall to season them, and win them early to the love of vertue and true labour, ere any flattering feducement, or vain principle feife them wandering, fome cafie and delightfull book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have ftore, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic -difcourfes. But in Latin we have none of claffic authoritie extant, except the two or three first books of Quintilian, and fome felect peeces elfewhere. But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them fuch lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, enflam'd with the ftudy of learning, and the admiration of vertue, stirr'd

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up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. That they may defpife and fcorn all their childish, and ill-taught qualities, to delight in manly, and liberal exercifes: which he who hath the art, and proper eloquence to catch them with, what with mild and effectuall perfwafions, and what with the intimation of fome fear, if need be, but chiefly by his own example, might in a fhort space gain them to an incredible diligence and courage: infufing into their young brefts fuch an ingenuous and noble ardor, as would not fail to make many of them renowned and matchleffe men. At the fame time, fome other hour of the day, might be taught

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