An Oration on the Subject of Education

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Excerpt from An Oration on the Subject of Education: Delivered Before the Healing Springs School Association on the Fifteenth of June, 1849In the next place, to abolish the study of the classical tongues, we Should lose that quick and ready percep tion of our' own superior language, so far' as it is de rived from the Latin and Greek. Much of the strength and beauty of style of some of our great authors, and many of which are text books in our colleges, and necessarily come up before the minds Of our youth, consists in the mental reference which they make to the derivative meaning of words. The power to follow them in this reference enables us to appreciate their style, and acquire their correctness and refinement of taste.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.