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Excerpt from The Art of Horsemanship: Altered and Abbreviated, According to the Principles of the Late, Sir Sidney Medows
It is well known with What'aversion-a Boyhtakes the first rudiments of a'langzuage, when constrained to begin with the most difficult partfof. Is that Of re peating thegfamm-ar; 'ifzhe be inotexpert at'it, hefis often severely' corrected -by 'his schoolmaster who perhaps in his'time was taught his lesson. With the same severity. 'but as this laborious method of begin ning our education still continues in 'practlce: i Can only lament the hard fate of the young scholar, m the terms of our facetious author of the Bath Guide, by saying, What pity a boy of a spirit so meek, Should be fiqgg'd. By his tyrant for Latin and Greek.
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