The Claims of Classical Culture Upon the Attention of American Teachers and American Schools (Classic Reprint)

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FB&C Limited, Jan 22, 2018 - Education - 78 pages
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The same has happened in France. Comeille, Moliére, Lafontaine, Pascal, Bossuet, Boileau, Ra cine, wrote their works long before the publication of any regular French Grammar. Bembo was the first who laid down grammatical rules for the Italian language, two hundred years after Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio had given to the world their im mortal works. The just inference from these state ments is, not that technical grammar is not useful, but that it is not everything, not that it is not to be properly used in our schools, but that it ought not to exclude the thorough study of those authors from whose works its precepts are drawn.

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