A Poetical Essay on the Early Part of Education;: To which is Prefixed an Enquiry Into the Discipline of the Ancients. With Some Observations on that of Our Public Schools |
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Page 40 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 36 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Page 34 - Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth and he a man of war from his youth.
Page 35 - Astarte, queen of Heaven, with crescent horns ; To whose bright image nightly by the moon Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs...
Page xlvi - Dutch, and English, bring forth their learning and recite their authors, Cicero only excepted, and one or two more in Latin, they be all patched clouts and rags, in comparison of fair woven broadcloths.
Page xi - ... ipsi in defossis specubus secura sub alta otia agunt terra, congestaque robora totasque advolvere focis ulmos ignique dedere. hie noctem ludo ducunt, et pocula laeti fermento atque acidis imitantur vitea sorbis.
Page 26 - Then refuming his natural fhape, and gaining the heart of Gunloda, he prevailed on her to let him drink three draughts of the liquor entrufted to her care. But the crafty Deity, refolving to make the moft of his advantage, pulled fo deep, that at the laft draught, he left none behind him in the...
Page 29 - I remember amongft others, to have heard opce the following Story read in a pretty large Company ; One of the Caliphs finding himfelf in Danger, from the Ambition, Wealth, and Power of one of his Minifters, conceived that the fafeft Way of delivering himfelf was to facrifice this Man to the People ; and therefore having ordered him to be put to Death, he at the fame Time by Proclamation, beftowed his Houfe and all his Wealth On the Populace. There wanted nothing more than this Royal...
Page xlvi - whether he were more noble captain in war, or more eloquent and wise counsellor in peace." And if ye believe not me, read diligently ./Emilius Probus in Latin, and Plutarch in Greek ; which two had no cause either to flatter or lie upon any of those which I have recited. And beside nobility in war, for excellent and...
Page 26 - But in the hurry and confufion in which the liquor was difcharged, the bulk of mankind were not aware that Odin only threw up part of it through his beak, the...