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... ( oftentimes prescribed as punishments ) did not fuit Milton's genius , being indeed even within our memory calculated rather for the drudgery of an industrious plodder than fuited to the genius of a youth of parts and fpirit .
... ( oftentimes prescribed as punishments ) did not fuit Milton's genius , being indeed even within our memory calculated rather for the drudgery of an industrious plodder than fuited to the genius of a youth of parts and fpirit .
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Philips is not one and another ; and he is the only original from whom thofe who have apologised for Milton's employment in teaching youth have copied . Whether Toland knew the particulars of Milton's motives , must be left to God and ...
Philips is not one and another ; and he is the only original from whom thofe who have apologised for Milton's employment in teaching youth have copied . Whether Toland knew the particulars of Milton's motives , must be left to God and ...
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We are told , " fays the new narrative , that in the art of education he per" formed wonders ; and a formidable lift " is given of the authors Greek and " Latin that were read in Alderfgate" street by youth between ten and fifteen " or ...
We are told , " fays the new narrative , that in the art of education he per" formed wonders ; and a formidable lift " is given of the authors Greek and " Latin that were read in Alderfgate" street by youth between ten and fifteen " or ...
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frankly confeffes , that having no fteady principle of religion in his youth , or even in his maturer years , he finally fet up his reft in the church of Rome : and indeed if the effentials of religion confift in the trappings of a ...
frankly confeffes , that having no fteady principle of religion in his youth , or even in his maturer years , he finally fet up his reft in the church of Rome : and indeed if the effentials of religion confift in the trappings of a ...
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This I take to be the most rationall and moft profitable way of learning languages , and whereby we may best hope to give account to GoD of our youth fpent herein and for the ufual method of teaching Arts , I deem it to be an old errour ...
This I take to be the most rationall and moft profitable way of learning languages , and whereby we may best hope to give account to GoD of our youth fpent herein and for the ufual method of teaching Arts , I deem it to be an old errour ...
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| Title | Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica Issue 56 of British culture series, Group IV Eighteenth century collections online |
| Author | Francis Blackburne |
| Publisher | Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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