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have him learned in all their wisdom . ' I wish him to hunt and hawk , to contend in the race , and to shoot at a mark . I would have him wear principally clothing of the fashipn of the English ; but I charge thee suffer him not to neglect his Jine hair , which is not , I am told , much regarded among them . I trust also he will bear in mind the saying of the " Sublime Discourse , ' * that " there is nothing more
useless to the sons of men than to drink too much ale . ' I charge thee , Sweyn , keep him from drunkenness . I have no more to say ;—go / And the said Sweyn went , and with him his pupil ; and the first time they sat at meat at Athelstan ' s table , Sweyn got drunk , and sang songs in honour of Thor and Odin , and of his masters , the Sea-Kings ! The only thing in the volume which we can reasonably find fault with , is the character of the young prince Harry Beauclerc , which bears not the
slightest resemblance to that of King Henry I . Alexander at Babylon was no improvement , alas ! upon Alexander as he first mounted Bucephalus * —but he was the same person ; we trace the same features , though bloated and spoiled . In Miss Taylor ' s frank , light-hearted , good-natured Prince Harry , and the decided preference which she allows him not only over William Rufus , but Robert , there is no preparation for the wily usurper of after-times , —the designing , the
selfinterested , the stern , and ( in spite of his grief for his son ' s death , we must add ) the cold-hearted King Henry , ' Beauclerc' though he might be . It is to be hoped that Miss Taylor will continue the series which she has thus begun at the most difficult point ; the simplicity of her style is admirably adapted to the subject , and she has a vein of good feeling
which runs through all subjects , and is doubly attractive ( to young readers especially ) from its freshness and originality . We can feel that it always diffuses itself unsought , and that she never labours to weave it into her stories like a pet quotation or an egotistical anecdote . 0 si sic omnes 1 and truth and feeling would be more in favour with the young and old .
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Initia Latina in usum Scholce Grammaticte Levishamte . B . Fellowes ^ 1832 . pp . 68 . There will be perpetual conflicts between those who decry , and those who out of all measure exalt , the importance of an acquaintance with the dead languages , —the former will call it a mere knowledge of words , and the latter will denominate it learning , —until their acquisition is rendered far less laborious than it has hitherto been , or until
the ancient method of teaching be again resorted to , by which it was pought to give a general , rather than a critical knowledge of them , to the great ma ? s of learners * The majority of even well-educated persons have neither time nor inclination for pursuing the niceties of Greek and JLatin , they have no wish to write those languages ; but they would rejoice , if they had been enabled , in the years they spent
over Grammars and Gr ad uses , to translate classical authors into good and elegant English , which many a man is not' able to do , who can -dispute learnedly about quantities , and who is deep in various readings and prime editions . We do not mean to deny the beauty or even usefulness of correct quantity , or the value of verbal criticism ; but to fiffiriB that for men in general there are other things of more importance ,,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/68/
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