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Latin & Greek
As we do without
the knowledge of
the German, so might
we without that of
the Latin & Greek
More words in our
language are not
derived from the
latter than from
the former
Disadvantages
12 Bad Morality
1. Love of war
2. Veneration of
bad political
institutions
3. Teach vices which
we punish with
the gallows.
4. Are full of obsenity.
5. Teach inferior eloquence.
6. Teach irrelevant
eloquence
7. Teach false
natural philosophy
and natural
history
The use of languages
other than our own are
1. To converse with
men with whom we
would not converse
otherwise
2. To learn things
which we could not
so well learn otherwise.
While men are
acquiring false
words, they are acquiring
false ideas
of things.
—
may advise a excellences
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Sciences Advantages 1. They present always something new to be discovered- DEad languages possess such no such advantage. 2. What is discovered in them, many of them, others besides discovere reader At the publick expense men ought to be taught nothing but what is really useful - what is agreeable, they will proportion as it is agreeable teach themselves. Nothing is worth reading in Greek or Latin that would not be worth reading had it been written in English. But you have in English whatever is worth reading in Greek or Latin. Poetry- no more reason for teaching it than Chess or Cards. As to the metre it is upon a level with punning As to the imagery its characteristic is to give false view of things- either obscure or exaggerated - Exactness, viz: truths is acknowledged to be the ane of poetry.
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ir. educ. |
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final objects / legenda / catholicism establishment of questions / latin & greek / sciences |
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fi |
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jeremy bentham |
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benjamin constant |
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