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Classical education - Early works to 1800

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    An attempt to display the importance of classical learning , addressed to the parents and guardians of youth: with some candid remarks on Mr. Knox's Liberal education. By Joseph Cornish.

    Joseph Cornish | Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]
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    Institutes of learning Taken from Aristotle, Plutarch, Longinus, Dionysius Halicar. Cicero, Quintilian, and many other writers both ancient and modern. Containing the method of teaching the classics in their most substantial and beautiful parts; the characters and affections of stile; the art of school-compositions, and all kinds of oratory. Concluding with an exhortation to learning. By the Reverend Edward Manwaring.

    Manwaring, Edward. | Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]
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    Remarks on the very inferior utility of classical learning . By W. Stevenson.

    Stevenson, William, 1772-1829. | Date: 1796

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