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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	author_n	know_v	write_v	2,987	5	5.2886	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38968	An examen of the way of teaching the Latin tongue to little children, by use alone Englished out of French.; Examen de la manier d'enseigner de latin aux enfans. English.		1669 (1669)	Wing E3707; ESTC R13765	24,631	92

number and vastness of things desirable to be known or to lengthen Life should want matter to employ it as long as it shall last and how those who avow that Latin may be learnt till the age of seaven years doubt Whether there will be matter enough of more consequence than the Latin Tong to take up the time from seaven years to fifteen For if you be onely in paine how to employ them without changing the ordinary course of instructing Children in Learning you may give them to read from time to time not only some of the familiar Letters or Orations of Cicero as is vsual but also his Books of Oratory and all his Philosophical Works wherein there is so much matter to learn and study besides Quintilian Terence the Commentaries of Caesar Pliny the Younger Livy Salust Columella Tacitus Pliny the Elder c. then Virgil and some selected parts of Ovid Horace c. Further the modern Historians as Cambden Strada Masseus Paulus Ievius thuanus c. not to mention so many French Books that may be recommended to their perusal during that time It cannot be doubted but that those and such like Books will employ a Child untill it be 17. or 18. years old 2. That such employment will be more beneficiall to Children than the rules of the Language 3. That it will be more pleasing and delightfull to them 4. That it it will prove a great ease to the Parents that cannot be at the charges requisite to entertaine Tutors at home forasmuch as after their Children shall have learnt the Latin Tongue by Use alone they may be placed in Colledges and there applyed to read Authors and Books written in the Language of their own Country and especially such as belong to the History thereof during the time which other Children spend in the inferior Schools making them give an account of what they thus read in the intervals of those Schools But as men are born to know other things besides Fables Rhetorick and History and since there is much knowledg more necessary and Children are capable to be entred in such knowledge it will certainly be found that that pretended Vacuum how great soever it may appear will hardly be sufficient to learn what a Child well born can and ought to know before it is engaged in any Profession It would be the only means to equall the Antients by following their Example For they have not surpassed us but in this that they employed in learning to Design Arithmetick Geometry Musick Exercises Eloquence Philosophy and Armes that same time we spend in learning the Rules of a Language And this was that which made their Philosophers Souldiers as we may see in the person of Socrates and their Generals Orators and Philosophers as Xenophon Alexander Caesar and so many others It would be proper to show in this place that Children are capable to understand some of the Sciences and even the most important and the most necessary For that purpose it would suffice to alledge that 't is a thing that hath been tryed not only by the Antients as easily appeares by reading Plato and Aristotle where there are express places but also by the Moderns and that most of the Sciences may be so propos'd that the study of them will rather be a divertisment than a Labor But it will be fit to add that though we had no Experience of it yet it were easy to foresee that it would be so by Reason For those that are most tyed to the Teaching of Latin by Rules must the more grant that they suppose Children are capable to understand them But there is none of all those who teach Grammar that knows not that it contains 1. The Ideas of the different parts of Discourse 2. The Rules for each of those different parts 3. The Rules of their Composition call'd Syntaxe They must therefore Iudge Children capable to understand all that even from the Age of 6. or 7. years And indeed I have known some of that age who had pass'd thorough all those 3. parts and understood them Now I say that whosoever is capable to enter into that knowledge by that way is capable also to enter into almost all Scienecs especially those that Object of which is sensible 1. What concerns the Ideas of the different parts of discours we must grant that they cannot be understood unless you make in generall at least the distinction of Substance Accident Place Time Action Passion and of all the Relations thence resulting which comprehends that part of the etaphysicks we call Categories or Predicaments which we know to be very abstract they being only invented to facilitate the Mentall distinction of many things which we commonly see confus'd in Nature Now who can doubt but it will be more easy to show to a Child the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Moon and the other Principles of Cosmography which they may be directed to see without vexing them with Abstractions and afterwards to make them pass to Geography and the other Sciences depending thereon 2. As to the different Inflections or Accidents of Speech who sees not that they depend on a thousand eqstractions from Persons time passed present and to come That the Infinitive comprehends in its Idea the abstraction of all the differences of Time Numbers and Persons And that in the Times given to it it is nevertheless Infinitiue that is Indefinite because it containes in its Idea the Abstraction from all Persons That the distinction of those Moods depends on the distinction which is between the Idea of the simple Indication and that of Command and Desire c. That the Cases of Nouns are at least as abstracted as the Moods of Verbs and yet more difficult to understand And this being so who can doubt but a Child would be more capable to understand History with some Figures That the Genealogies themselves who make one of the greatest difficulties thereof would not be more easie to him then the reducing of a Derivative to its Primitive call'd the Investigation of the Theme and that it would not be more ready to him to remember e.g. that the King is the Issue of Robert Count of Clermont Son of St. Louys descended of Hugh Capet issued of Childebrand son of Charles Martel borne of the Marriage of Ansbert and Blitilde Daughter of Clotaire the First than to say that such a Word is the third person of the singular number of the preter-plus-perfect Tense of the Subjunctive of the Passive of such a Verbe In short there is not a Child which you may not make comprehend sooner the Demonstration of that Theorem of Geometry and of almost all others which saith If two Sides are equall to two Sides and the Angle to the Angle the whole is equall than the simple terms of the following Rule of Syntax which may serve for an Example of many other Rules viz. If two Substantives meet of different Genders and different Persons then the