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id: A85933
author: Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.
title: To all fathers of noble families and lovers of vertue
date: 1649
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words: 1002
sentence: 43
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  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A85933 of text R211307 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.14[87]). At foot of text:


id: B01507
author: Marischal College and University.
date: 1695
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mime: application/xml
words: 1209
sentence: 44
flesch: 54
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title:
  To his Grace, his Majesties high commissioner, and the right honourable estates of Parliament. The petition of the principal and masters of the Marishal Colledge of Aberdeen.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). [Edinburgh : 1695] Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Wing A91B copy imperfect: creased with loss of text.


id: A85930
author: Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.
title: To all fathers of noble families, and lovers of vertue.
date: 1648
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1089
sentence: 44
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A85930.xml
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summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A85930 of text R210991 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E783_2 669.f.14[46]). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163034)


id: B06105
author: Marischal College and University.
date: 1695
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1298
sentence: 49
flesch: 54
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title:
  To his Grace, his Majesties high commissioner, and the right honourable Estates of Parliament. The petition of the principal and masters of the Marishal Colledge of Aberdeen.

summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06105) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180393)


id: A53788
author: Bouchier, T.
date: 1651
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mime: application/xml
words: 1186
sentence: 57
flesch: 61
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title:
  A certificat in order to the collecting and reporting the state of the present English free-schools.

summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 110735)


id: A77784
author: Bulmer, John, Captain.
date: 1649
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1341
sentence: 60
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A77784.xml
txt: txt/A77784.txt
title:
  A note of such arts and mysteries as an English gentleman, a souldier, and a traveller is able by Gods assistance to perform (he having means to perfect the same.)

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A77784 of text R211317 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.14[89]). A note of such arts and mysteries as an English gentleman, a souldier, and a traveller is able by Gods assistance to perform (he having means to perfect the same.)


id: A41798
author: Grantham, Thomas, d. 1664.
date: 1644
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3392
sentence: 118
flesch: 68
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title:
  Mnemophthoropaiktes, the brainbreakersbreaker, or, The apologie of Thomas Grantham, for his method in teaching dwelling in Lothbury, London.

summary:
  I will undertake to prove by learned Authors & reason , 〈◊〉 Free-schooles , & other common Schooles , do make their Scholars spend their prime and choycest time , in that which is to no purpose at all , in that which is so farre from doing good , it doth a great deale of 〈◊〉 Let any man read Ascham , Tutor to Queen Elizabeth , hee shall see how hee condemns this lip-labour , this learning word by word without book , which is the Diana of the common Schooles , O how great is this Diana of the common Schooles ! hee and others shew , it is a heavy and grievous burden , which is imposed meerly out of ignorance , or knavery , to make one go his journey with a great deale of sorrow and grief , and vvb thousands from being Scholars . Now you see according to Ascham , Grammar must bee used as ● Dictionary , and hee that knows any thing , knows that a Dictionary is not to bee learned word by word without book , therefore not a Grammar ; hee tells you in this place that it is tedious to the Scholar , let any man consider , who hath not the patience of an Asse , what a tedious thing it is to have all the Grammar , or most of it , lapt up in his head word by word , and presently to apply every rule word by word , or else up hee goes , if hee were as good as George a Greene .


id: A85540
author: Grantham, Thomas, d. 1664.
date: 1650
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words: 4842
sentence: 121
flesch: 62
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title:
  October the 22. 1649. The three-penny cooks fat in the fire, or rhe [sic] downefall of as-in-presentis; or the schoole-master under the black-rod. Or the brain-breakers breaker newly broke out againe. By Thomas Grantham, master in art of Peter-house in Cambridge, heretofore professor in Bowlane and Mug-well-street neere Barber Chyrurgions Hall: now over against Graies Inn Gate in Holborne, at Master Bulls.

summary:
  Erasmus , the restorer of the Fathers Greeke and Latine , the greatest Writer in his time , incomperable for Wit , Learning , and Eloquence , hath the same words ; some make it their greatest care to learne the Rules word by word without book , which thing saith he , I allow not of , for it is great paines to no purpose , nor profit all . I have had Boyes come from common Schooles , could say all the Grammer word for word without booke , and yet could not make halfe a Line of true Latine ; and that which is most absurd of all , they teach a Boy to make Latine by the Latine Rules , when a Boy understands not Latine ; just as if a man should teach one an art in French , when he understands not French ; then there are many Boyes can say without book to their Companions or by themselves , but the Master , strutting with the Rod in his hand , and his imperious looke and threatning , puts a Boy cleare out ; as for a Master to talk thus to a Boy , Sirra I le smoke you , I le make your Buttocks blush , I le make you feare me ; these words confound a Boy and fright him out of all :


id: A89146
author: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
title: Of education. To Master Samuel Hartlib.
date: 1644
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mime: application/xml
words: 5294
sentence: 131
flesch: 52
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summary:
  After evening repast , till bed time their thoughts will be best taken up in the easie grounds of Religion , and the story of Scripture . Logic therefore so much as is usefull , is to be referr'd to this due place withall her well coucht heads and Topics , unt●ll it be time to open her contracted palm into a gracefull and ornate Rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato , Aristotle , Phalereus , Cicero , Hermogenes , Longinus .


id: A34095
author: Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
date: 1648
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mime: application/xml
words: 6086
sentence: 139
flesch: 45
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title:
  A continuation of Mr. John-Amos-Comenius school-endeavours, or, A summary delineation of Dr. Cyprian Kinner Silesian, his thoughts concerning education, or, The way and method of teaching exposed to the ingenuous and free censure of all piously-learned men ... : together with an advice how these thoughts may be succesfully put in practice / translated out of the original Latine, transmitted to Sam. Hartlib, and by him published ...

summary:
  that the drift of my Invention for Teachiug is , That all Things Necessary to be known may be instilled into Learners without the troublesome getting of things by heart , without the usuall confused multitude of Books , and without the ill Custome of Dictations , by the only meer help of sensible Objects , and by Talk , and Exercise both serious and by way of sport and pastime , with so much firmnesse ( as I believe ) that nothing thereof shall easily be forgotten , with that soundnesse and certainty , that no man shall easily refuse it , and in that fulnesse and plenty that nothing either necessary or usefull ( especially of Things Domestick and Usefull ) can be further desired , Moreover , with that simplicity and plainnese , that all Ages , Wits , Dispositions and Sects may be indifferently admitted unto this Method . In the mean time these lines I hope may suffice , to the more apprehensive Judges of things , and such as are pleased , with a succinct , compleat brevity .


id: A80720
author: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.
title: A proposition for the advancement of experimental philosophy. By A. Cowley.
date: 1661
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mime: application/xml
words: 6324
sentence: 209
flesch: 59
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summary:
  For the supplying of which Defect , it is humbly proposed to his Sacred Majesty , his most Honourable Parliament , and Privy Council , and to all such of his Subjects as are willing and able to contribute any thing towards the advancement of real and useful Learning , that by their Authority , Encouragement , Patronage , and Bounty , a Philosophical Colledge may be erected , after this ensuing , or some such like Model . That the Revenue of this Colledge amount to four thousand pounds a year .


id: A44391
author: Hoole, Charles, 1610-1667.
date: 1659
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mime: application/xml
words: 8828
sentence: 207
flesch: 56
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title:
  The petty-schoole Shewing a way to teach little children to read English with delight and profit, (especially) according to the new primar. By C. H.

summary:
  being now ( I may say ) generally thrown aside , and the ordinary Primar not printed , and the very fundamentalls of christian Religion ( which were wont to be contained in those books , and were commonly taught children at home by heart before they went to Schoole ) with sundry people ( almost in all places ) slighted , the matter which is taught in most books now in use , is not so familiar to them , and therefore not so easie for Children to learn . The petty-schoole Shewing a way to teach little children to read English with delight and profit, (especially) according to the new primar.


id: A58018
author: Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713.
date: 1698
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mime: application/xml
words: 9372
sentence: 310
flesch: 59
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title:
  An essay, concerning critical and curious learning in which are contained some short reflections on the controversie betwixt Sir William Temple and Mr. Wotton, and that betwixt Dr. Bentley and Mr. Boyl / by T.R. Esq.

summary:
  An essay, concerning critical and curious learning in which are contained some short reflections on the controversie betwixt Sir William Temple and Mr. Wotton, and that betwixt Dr. Bentley and Mr. Boyl / by T.R. Esq. An essay, concerning critical and curious learning in which are contained some short reflections on the controversie betwixt Sir William Temple and Mr. Wotton, and that betwixt Dr. Bentley and Mr. Boyl / by T.R. Esq.


id: A39737
author: Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.
date: 1696
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mime: application/xml
words: 10358
sentence: 215
flesch: 46
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title:
  A sermon of the education of children preach'd before the right honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel on Sunday, Novemb. 1, 1696 / by William Fleetwood ...

summary:
  A sermon of the education of children preach'd before the right honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel on Sunday, Novemb. 1, 1696 / by William Fleetwood ... A sermon of the education of children preach'd before the right honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel on Sunday, Novemb. 1, 1696 / by William Fleetwood ... Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.


id: A58027
author: Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713.
date: 1698
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mime: application/xml
words: 11439
sentence: 406
flesch: 67
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title:
  A vindication of An essay concerning critical and curious learning in which are contained some short reflections on the controversie betwixt Sir William Temple and Mr. Wotton, and that betwixt Dr. Bentley and Mr. Boyle : in an answer to an Oxford pamphlet / by the author of that essay.

summary:
  For how else could they determine critically of all kinds of Knowledge ? How could they assign suitable Methods ●nd proportionable Degrees , for the ●rocess of Humane Understanding , i● all her Enquiries ? How could t●ey pretend to fix the Boundaries of L●arning ? How could they be capable of forming a regular Scheme and Plan of the whole Circle of Ar●s and Sciences for the Benefit of others , if they were not perfect Masters of 'em themselves ? I question whether there is , or ever was , any one Man in the World thus qualified . I writ the Essay w●th the same awe ( if I may be allo●ed the Comparison on my part ) t●at Tully did his Epistles to Atticus .


id: A37083
author: Dury, John, 1596-1680.
date: 1650
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words: 12019
sentence: 270
flesch: 37
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title:
  The reformed librarie-keeper with a supplement to The reformed-school, as subordinate to colleges in universities / by John Durie ; whereunto is added, I. An idea of mathematicks II. The description of one of the chiefest libraries which is in Germanie ...

summary:
  Truly it never came into my thoughts , either directly or indirectly to make Universities useless ; nor can it bee rationally infer'd from anie thing in the matter form or end of that discours of mine : but I will grant that such as can see no further then what wee now ordinarily attein unto ; and withal think that there is no Plus ultra in nature atteinable above that which they have conceived , such as I saie may frame to themselv's this jealousie against that discours : but if they would rais their thoughts with mee a little above the ordinarie pitch , and consider what the Nature of man is capable off : and how far it may , by diligent instruction , by Method and Communication , bee improved : they might rather bee induced to make this inference , if the natural abilities of youths in a School ( when reformed ) may bee thus far improved : how far more may they bee improved , when they are past the age of Youth , and com to Manhood in Colleges and Universities , if namely Colleges and Universities , could in the sphere of their activities bee proportionally Reformed , as the Schools may bee in their sphere : for it is rational to conclude thus : if the first step of our Reformation will lead us thus far , how far will the second and third lead us ? and if Scholastical Exercises in Youths of eighteen or twentie years , will advance them to that perfection of Learning and Virtues , which few of double their age or none almost ever attein unto , what will Collegial and Academical Exercises ( if reformed and set upon their proper Objects ) bring them unto ? I shall therefore to eas you , or such as may have this scruple and jealousie over mee , declare that my purpose is so far from making Colleges and Universities useless , that if I might have my desire in them , they should becom a thousand times more useful then now they are , that is , as far above the ordinarie State wherein they are set , as this School is above the ordinarie waie of Schooling : for if wee look upon the true and proper ends of School , College and Universitie-studies and Exercises ; wee shall see that as in nature they are in a gradual proportion , distant from , and subordinate unto each other , so they ought to rise one out of another , and bee built upon each other's Foundations . Thus then I conceiv , that in a well-Reformed Common wealth , which is to bee subordinate unto the Kingdom of Jesus Christ , wherein the Glorie of God , the happiness of the nature of man : and the Glorious libertie of the Sons of God is to bee revealed ; all the subjects thereof should in their Youth bee trained up in som Schools fit for their capacities , and that over these Schools , som Overseers should bee appointed to look to the cours of their Education , to see that none should bee left destitute of som benefit of virtuous breeding , according to the several kinds of emploiments , whereunto they may bee found most fit and inclinable , whether it bee to bear som civil Office in the Common-wealth , or to bee Mechanically emploied , or to bee bred to teach others humane Sciences , or to bee imploied in Prophetical Exercises .


id: A26583
author: Ainsworth, Robert, 1660-1743.
date: 1698
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mime: application/xml
words: 12769
sentence: 363
flesch: 57
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title:
  The most natural and easie way of institution containing proposals for making a domestic education less chargeable to parents and more easie and beneficial to children : by which method, youth may not only make a very considerable progress in languages, but also in arts and sciences, in two years.

summary:
  But some will be apt to think , the perfecting of all this will be a Matter of great difficulty , and many Years ; and that the learning of Latin alone taking up so much time , when will the rest be perfected , which are usually the Studies of Men , not Children ? I answer : I do not mean they should be separate , and successive Acts , but all carried on at once ; and that I believe the Latin Tongue may be learn'd so far forth as to understand very well a Roman Author , to write Latin correctly , and speak it fluently , and a considerable knowledge attain'd in Arts and Sciences , by little Children , by the Proposals following , in two years time at most , and that with ease and pleasure , both to Master and Scholar . But Children are generally thought incapable of learning Latin at this Age.


id: A45023
author: Hall, John, 1627-1656.
date: 1649
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mime: application/xml
words: 13379
sentence: 233
flesch: 36
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title:
  An humble motion to the Parliament of England concerning the advancement of learning, and reformation of the universities by J.H.

summary:
  But the wishes of the most knowing and best men are 〈…〉 far above these ●●ender performances ; they professe ●nd I do but now make their sighings Articulat ) that ●●e body of learning lyes scattered in as many peeces as ever Medea cut her little Brother into , and that they are as hard to finde and re-unite as his was . There is none requires it to another use , but one 〈…〉 to a better use , and in the end it can be no more rob 〈…〉 y , then t is sacriledge to rescue a Temple from the superstition wherewith it was defiled , to the use of a 〈…〉 er and more illuminated Religion .


id: A37084
author: Dury, John, 1596-1680.
title: The reformed school by John Dury.
date: 1649
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mime: application/xml
words: 19634
sentence: 462
flesch: 51
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summary:
  And such as ma● be found capable of Tongues and Science● ( to perfect them in Graces and the know●ledge of Christ for all is to be referred t● him above the ordinary sort ) are not to b● neglected ; but assisted towards the improv●●ment of their intellectuall abilities . ●●tion since the beginning thereof .


id: A63806
author: Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
date: 1695
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mime: application/xml
words: 23252
sentence: 666
flesch: 58
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title:
  A new method of educating children, or, Rules and directions for the well ordering and governing them during their younger years shewing that they are capable ... : also, what methods is to be used by breeding women ... / written ... by Tho. Tryon ...

summary:
  Why sh●u'd the Publick for so many Years be deprived of the Service of so many hopeful Boys , who are ter a great deal to be entred upon Action , and intrusted with the management of Business , than to be compelled to sit in Torment eight Hours in a Day under the grum and unpleasing Aspect of an harsh vnd ill-natured Pedagogue . ●hey made Essays , but never cou'd arrive ●t the true Course and Method how to live .


id: A67575
author: Ward, Seth, 1617-1689.
date: 1654
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 26377
sentence: 818
flesch: 58
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title:
  Vindiciæ academiarum containing some briefe animadversions upon Mr Websters book stiled, The examination of academies : together with an appendix concerning what M. Hobbs and M. Dell have published on this argument.

summary:
  But it would be sad , if things should be modelled by this mans reading , or Universities were to subsist upon his collections . The use of this way with all Symbolicall writers old or new , ( Numeralls , Literalls , Algebraicalls ( for there want not such as have designed things by the notes of Cossic powers ) is to discourse ( that is to compare subjects and subjects , subjects and Predicates , and to deduce conclusions ) freely without the trouble of words , upon which while the mind of man is intended , it neither sees the consequence so cleerely , nor can so swiftly make comparison as when it is acquitted of those obstacles , an instance whereof every man hath in casting an account by Sarracenicall Ziphers , which is much more certaine and speedy , then if the numbers were designed either in words at length , or in the letters of any Alphabet ; if ever there be a speedy way made to the attainement of Knowledge , it must be by making a shorter , and clearer cutt to the understanding ( by the way of signification ) then that which is travailed now by words ; which advancement of Learning and Knowledge , will bring ( not an advance , as this man innocently supposes , but ) an elevation and uselessenesse upon Language and Grammar .


id: A65215
author: Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.
title: Considerations concerning free-schools as settled in England
date: 1678
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mime: application/xml
words: 27107
sentence: 1104
flesch: 60
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summary:
  His talent was singular in expounding difficult Texts , and the mystery of Religion : to speak the things of God as from God : to the instruction of men , man as he was : till both speaker and hearer were rapt up into the same transports of devotion . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A16864
author: Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624.
date: 1622
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mime: application/xml
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sentence: 966
flesch: 62
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title:
  A consolation for our grammar schooles: or, a faithfull and most comfortable incouragement, for laying of a sure foundation of all good learning in our schooles, and for prosperous building thereupon More specially for all those of the inferiour sort, and all ruder countries and places; namely, for Ireland, Wales, Virginia, with the Sommer Ilands, and for their more speedie attaining of our English tongue by the same labour, that all may speake one and the same language. ...

summary:
  Secondly , I desire to commend vnto you , for them , and that vpon vndoubted experience , the helpe , and benefit of another poore labour , which he of his goodnes hath likewise granted vnto me , namelie of a little Treatise called , The true Watch , and Rule of Life : which hauing receiued the witnesse of sundrie godlie learned , ( of whom I haue for manie yeares intreated the examining ; and censuring of it , after the publique authorizing thereof ) to be that waie of godlines , wherein we all who truelie professe Christs Gospel do agree , and that narrow path , in which all that walke conscionablie , and carefullie , shall certainely finde eternall Life : I dare be the more bold in ●●tie to make tender of , for the furtherance of their perpetuall comfort and felicitie . And vnto the same adioyned the Rule of true Prayer , the second part of the same True Watch ; wherein I haue followed , ( so neare as I haue beene able ) the perfect patterne of our blessed Sauiour : which two so conioyned , may be for directing priuately euerie soule ( which hath grace to vse them , and to put them so in practise ) as their Sea-card and Compasse , to keepe them in the right course to their intended Point ; that they may not be carried ouer farre , nor fall too short of their desired hauen ; Yea to performe that for them , which neither Card nor Compasse can ; to wit , that they may not onelie be k●pt from splitting ; or dashing vpon the Rockes or Sands , but that they may saile securelie amongst the most dangerous rockes and perillous tempests .


id: A34114
author: Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
date: 1642
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title:
  A reformation of schooles designed in two excellent treatises, the first whereof summarily sheweth, the great necessity of a generall reformation of common learning : what grounds of hope there are for such a reformation : how it may be brought to passe : the second answers certain objections ordinarily made against such undertakings, and describes the severall parts and titles of workes which are shortly to follow / written ... in Latine by ... John Amos Comenius ... ; and now ... translated into English ... by Samuel Hartlib ...

summary:
  Not many yeares since occasion was offered mee by Gods providence to compose a worke for direction in teaching the Latine tongue , ( as other languages also ) more compendiously , according to the true series and order of Things , which by the perswasion of my friends , and approbation of superiours , I published under the Title of Linguarum janua ( following therein the example of the Irish Fathers , of the Colledge of Salamanca in Spaine , who first gave mee the hint thereof , which being commonly received into Schooles with great applause , incouraged mee to intend my thoughts for the framing of a Janua rerum : an entrance to the knowledge of things themselves . And Cicero saith , That wisedome is the mother of all Arts , teaching us first how to worship God , then how to observe justice in humane society , and also framing our minds to modesty and magnanimity : She drives away darknesse from our mind's , as it were from our eyes , that we may discerne all things both above us , and below us , and things of all orders , natures , and degrees whatsoever : and lastly , that she is the onely soveraigne medicine of the mind .


id: A65356
author: Webster, John, 1610-1682.
date: 1654
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sentence: 1149
flesch: 51
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title:
  Academiarum examen, or, The examination of academies wherein is discussed and examined the matter, method and customes of academick and scholastick learning, and the insufficiency thereof discovered and laid open : as also some expedients proposed for the reforming of schools, and the perfecting and promoting of all kind of science ... / by Jo. Webster.

summary:
  Yet besides what I have formerly spoken of Tongues in relation to the interpretation of the Scripture , thus much also is evident , that if a man had the perfect knowledge of many , nay all languages , that he could give unto man , beast , bird , fish , plant , mineral , or any other numerical creature or thing , their distinct and proper names in twenty several Idioms , or Dialects , yet knows he no more thereby , than he that can onely name them in his mother tongue , for the intellect receives no other nor further notion thereby , for the senses receive but one numerical species or Ideal-shape from every individual thing , though by institution and imposition , twenty , or one hundred names be given unto it , according to the Idiome of several nations . 5. This Philosophy is meerly verbal , speculative , abstractive , formal and notional , fit to fill the brains with monstrous and airy Chymaeras , speculative , and fruitless conceits , but not to replenish the intellect with sound knowledge , and demonstrative verity , nor to lead man practically to dive into the internal center of natures abstruse , and occult operations : But is only conversant about the shell , and husk , handling the accidental , external and recollacious qualities of things , confusedly , and continually tumbling over obscure , ambiguous , general and equivocal terms , which are onely fit to captivate young Sciolists , and raw wits , but not to satisfy a discreet and wary understanding , that expects Apodictical , and experimental manuduction into the more interiour clossets of nature .


id: A48896
author: Locke, John, 1632-1704.
title: Some thoughts concerning education
date: 1693
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mime: application/xml
words: 52830
sentence: 1688
flesch: 67
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txt: txt/A48896.txt
summary:
  I will not say the good Temper of the Child did not very much contribute to it , but this I think you and the Parents are satisfied of , that a contrary usage according to the ordinary disciplining of Children , would not have mended that Temper , nor have brought him to be in love with his Book , to take a pleasure in Learning , and to desire as he does to be taught more than those about him think fit always to teach him . 2. Timagine the minds of Children as easily turned this or that way , as Water it self ; and though this be the principal part , and our main care should be about the inside , yet the clay Cottage is not to be neglected .


id: A39820
author: Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723.
title: The history, choice, and method of studies by Monsieur Fleury ...
date: 1695
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 55608
sentence: 1857
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A39820.xml
txt: txt/A39820.txt
summary:
  In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. And indeed , since all Men have Thoughts , and Study is nothing but the Attentive Application of their Thoughts to those Objects which they are the most concern'd to know ; 't would be great Injury to the rest of Mankind , to exclude all , except two or three Orders of Men , from the benefit of Studies .


id: A09195
author: Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627, engraver.
date: 1622
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 67243
sentence: 2204
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A09195.xml
txt: txt/A09195.txt
title:
  The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman. By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.

summary:
  If you would farther proceed in Nobilitie or Heraldry , I would wi●h you to reade these bookes of 〈◊〉 ob●●itie in gener●●● : Simon Simonius de N●●ilit●●e , 〈…〉 at Leipsig . 1572. R●●tor .


id: A67252
author: Walker, Obadiah, 1616-1699.
title: Of education, especially of young gentlemen in two parts, the second impression with additions.
date: 1673
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 80067
sentence: 3359
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A67252.xml
txt: txt/A67252.txt
summary:
  eng Young men -- Education -- Early works to 1800. The most useful knowledg is that , of a mans self : and this depends upon that more universal consideration of , Quid homo potest ; naturally , and artificially : i. e. what abilities are in us originally , by the gift of God ; and what attainable by our own industry .


# ent

id: A65215
sid: 1135
eid: 3
type: PERSON
entity:
  vel si etiam nullum stipendium habent ab ecclesiâ possunt exigere salarium moderatum : & si sponte offertur


