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" ... as great effects of his care of forming their minds to virtue, and their carriage to good breeding, as of forming their tongues to the learned languages, you must confess that you have a strange value for words, when, preferring the languages of the... "
The Cambridge History of English Literature: Cavalier and Puritan - Page 341
edited by - 1911
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Some thoughts concerning education [by J. Locke.]. By J. Locke

John Locke - 1712 - 332 pages
...Breeding, as of forming their Tongues to the learned Languages, you muft confefi, that you have a ftrange Value for Words, when preferring the Languages of...ancient Greeks and Romans, to that which made 'em filch brave Men, you think it worth while to hazard your Son's Innocence and Vertue, for a little Greek...
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The Parents' Friend; Or Extracts from the Principal Works on ..., Volume 2

1803 - 456 pages
...good breeding, as of forming their tongues to the learned languages, you must confess^that you have a strange value for words, when preferring the languages of the ancient Greek and Romans to that which tnade them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard your son's...
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The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author ..., Volume 9

John Locke - 1812 - 492 pages
...good breeding, as of forming their tongues to the learned languages; you must confess, that you have a strange value for words, when, preferring the languages...of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard your son's innocence and virtue, for a little...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 19

Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...Let him, however, stand forward and speak for himself. " You must confess," says he, " that you have a strange value for WORDS, when, preferring the languages...of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard your sou's innocence and virtue, for a little...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 19

1822 - 576 pages
...for WORDS, when, preferring the languages of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard...son's innocence and virtue, for a little Greek and Latin, by giving him a public education." Were these, then, I ask, always safe in PRIVATE ? and is...
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The Works of John Locke, Volume 9

John Locke - 1823 - 496 pages
...for words, when, preferring the languages of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard...son's innocence and virtue for a little Greek and Latin. For, as for that boldness and spirit which lads get amongst their playfellows at school, it...
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The Works of John Locke, Volume 9

John Locke - 1823 - 504 pages
...good breeding, as of forming their tongues to the learned languages ; you must confess, that you have a strange value for words, when, preferring the languages...of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard your son's innocence and virtue for a little...
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The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D.D.: With a Biographical Preface, Volume 4

Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 396 pages
...Let him, however, stand forward and speak for himself. " You must confess," says he, *' that you have a strange value for words, when, preferring the languages...of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard your son's innocence and virtue, for a little...
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The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D.D.: With a Biographical Preface, Volume 4

Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 402 pages
...Let him, however, stand forward and speak for himself. " You must confess," says he, " that you have a strange value for words, when, preferring the languages of the ancient Greeks and Romans to * OM.EN, the Cambro-britannic epigrammatist, so celebrated, •wrote bad Latin; and of his epigrams...
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Some thoughts concerning education. An examination of P. Malebranche's ...

John Locke - 1824 - 498 pages
...their tongues to the I learned languages! you must confess, that you have aSrtrange valuefbT"words, when, preferring the languages of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard your son's innocence and virtue, for a little...
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