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AMERICAN

ANNALS OF EDUCATION.

JUNE, 1839.

ART. 1.-ASCHAM, MILTON, AND LOCKE ON CLASSICAL EDUCATION.

THE FIRST BOOK FOR THE YOUTH.

AFTER the childe hath learned perfectlie the eight parts of speach, let him then learne the right joyning together of substantives with adjectives, the nowne with the verbe, the relative with the antecedent. And, in learning further his syntaxis, by my advice, he shall not use the common order in common scholes, for making of Latines: whereby the childe commonly learneth, first, an evill choice of wordes, (and Right choice of wordes, saith Cæsar, is the foundation of eloquence;") then a wrong placing of wordes; and, lastlie, an ill framing of the sentence, with a perverse judgment, both of words and sentences. These faultes, taking once roote in youth, be never, or hardlie, plucked away in age. There is a waie, touched in the first booke of Cicero de Oratore, which, wiselie brought into scholes, truly taught, and constantly used, would not only take wholly away this butcherlie feare of making of Latines, but would also with ease and pleasure, and in short time, as I know by good experience, worke a true choice and placing of wordes, a right ordering of sentences, an easy understanding of the tonge, a readiness to speake, a facilitie to write, a true judgment,

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