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The doctor &c / [Robert Southey].

  • Robert Southey
Date:
1834-1847
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Credit: The doctor &c / [Robert Southey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XII. P. I.—p. 129. A HISTORY NOTICED WHICH IS WRITTEN BACKWARD. THE CONFUSION OF TONGUES AN ESPECIAL EVIL FOR SCHOOLBOYS. For never in the long- and tedious tract Of slavish grammar was I made to plod ; No tyranny of Rules my patience rackt; 1 served no prenticehood to any Rod; But in the freedom of the Practic way Learnt to go right, even when I went astray. Dr. Beaumont. CHAPTER XIII. P. L—p. 136. A DOUBT CONCERNING SCHOOL BOOKS, WHICH WILL BE DEEMED HERETICAL : AND SOME ACCOUNT OF AN EXTRAORDINARY SUBSTITUTE FOR OVID OR VIRGIL. They say it is an ill mason that refuseth any stone ; and there is no knowledge but in a skilful hand serves, either po¬ sitively as it is, or else to illustrate some other knowledge. Herbert’s Remains.
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