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Miscellanea in usum juventutis academic�: containing 1. Characters of the classick authors, and some of our English Writers: Collected from Kenner, Addison, Pope, Garth, Dryden, Rapin, &c. 2. Instructions for Reading the Classick Authors: Drawn from Hales, Felton, and Blackwall. 3. A Chronology of the Classick Authors: together with some short Instructions for Reading Chronology. 4. A Catalogue of the Best Classick Authors, and other Books of Polite Learning, and their Best Editions. 5. Pagan Mythology: Collected out of Vossius, Macrobius, Lampridius, Bochartus, Diodorus Siculus, Philostratus, Diogenes, Lucian, Plato, Plutarch, &c. 6. Latin Exercises; viz. Themes, Declamations, Poems, Philosophical Epigrams and Orations. 7. A Correction of several palpable Mistakes made by some of our English Historians and other Authors, as Daniel, Trussel, Temple, Brerewood, Hearne, Ayliffe, Puffendorf, Heylin, Savage, Spon, Brown, Walker, Dacier, Rapin, Virgil, Seneca, Tibullus, Paterculus, Sleidan, &c. By John Pointer, M.A. Chaplain of Merton College in Oxford, and Rector of Slapton in Northampton-Shire
Pointer, John, 1668-1754.Date: 1718- E-books
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Essays on poetry and music, as they affect the mind; on laughter, and ludicrous composition; on the usefulness of classical learning. By James Beattie, LL. D. Professor Of Moral Philosophy And Logic In The Marischal College And University Of Aberdeen.
James BeattieDate: M.DCC.LXXIX. [1779]- E-books
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An oration by Mr. Peter Burman against the studies of humanity . ... Translated into English, and the original annext.
Burman, Pieter, 1668-1741.Date: 1722- E-books
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Occasional thoughts on the study and character of classical authors, on the course of litterature [sic], and the present plan of a learned education. ..
Gordon, John, Archdeacon of Lincoln.Date: 1762- E-books
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Remarks upon education, with respect to the learned languages shewing their importance to good literature, and a due cultivation of the human understanding. By the Rev. William Duke. Copy-right secured.
Duke, William, 1757-1840.Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795]