Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . ou to a hillside,where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and nobleeducation; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth,so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds onevery side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. Idoubt not but ye shall have more ado to drive our dullest andlaziest youth, our stocks and stubs, from the infinite desire ofsuch a happy nurture, than we have now to hale and drag ourchoicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sow-thistlesand brambles, wh


Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . ou to a hillside,where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and nobleeducation; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth,so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds onevery side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. Idoubt not but ye shall have more ado to drive our dullest andlaziest youth, our stocks and stubs, from the infinite desire ofsuch a happy nurture, than we have now to hale and drag ourchoicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sow-thistlesand brambles, which is commonly sett before them as all thefood and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible call therefore a complete and generous education, that whichfits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all theoffices, both private and public, of peace and war. And how allthis may be done between twelve and one-and-twenty, less timethan is now bestowed in pure trifling at grammar and sophistry,is to be thus ordered. A A^^*»>»*^. vt-U 1^ /z*.^ *Jz*iiSh


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