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Credit: A memoir of John Deakin Heaton, M. D., of Leeds. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![though I liad not learned the grammar there in use, I had a fair knowledge of Latin grammar generally, and I was accordingly at once promoted to the third form, which was the lower of the two forms in Mr. WoUaston's school. Here I was set to learn the Eton Latin and Greek Grammars, the latter written in Latin and very imperfectly understood, but at all events committed to memory. This, with the transla- tion of the Latin Delectus, the Analecta Grasca ]\iinora, some passages from White's Diatessaron, and —on Monday mornings—the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel of the previous day, formed absolutely all that I was at this time taught. English, writing, history, geography, and modern foreign languages were all neglected. Most gentlemen's sons at the Grammar School had in addition some private tuition in these essential parts of a liberal education. But my father provided none of them for me; having put me to school he had [done enough, as he thought; and during the whole time of my schooling, till I left the Grammar School to go to Mr. Braithwaite's surgery, the little Greek and Latin and the rudiments of algebra and mathematics taught in the Grammar School were all the teaching I had. Anything of the modern languages, history, or geography which I knew was accidentally picked up and known most imperfectly, for I was by no means studious or fond of learning for its own sake. The imperfection of my](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21209741_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
