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British Education: Or, The Source of the Disorders of Great Britain: Being an Essay Towards Proving, that the Immorality, Ignorance, and False Taste, which So Generally Prevail, are the Natural and Necessary Consequences of the Present Defective System of Education. With an Attempt to Shew, that a Revival of the Art of Speaking, and the Study of Our Language, Might Contribute, in a Great Measure, to the Cure of Those Evils. In Three Parts ...

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Thomas Sheridan

George Faulkner, 1756 - 392 pages

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CONTENTS	1

Our preſent ſyſtem of education confidered	13

Of the principles upon which a fyftem of edu	26

Of the power and extent of this principle	32

That there is one point in which the ftudy	39

Tho virtue might have been a fufficient	40

That from the nature of our fituation	53

Of the means by which the principle of	61

That the means to arrive at perfection	177

That we have it more in our power	199

Of the means whereby our language may	271

That the liberal arts never flouriſhed or	286

That the liberal arts always followed ora	288

Of poetry mufic and painting and their	297

That it is almoſt impoſſible that the mafters	317

Of the encouragements given to the feveral	327

Ill confequences of this defect both to church	111

Of the excellence and use of the Greek	132

That the perfection of the Greek and Roman	140

Caufes of the neglect hitherto of fludying	153

That thofe caufes no longer operate nor	162

Objection to the above hypothefis drawn	335

That the fuppofed perfection of modern works	345

Good confequences to Great Britain ſhould	355

Whether it is not probable that the arts	371

The chief diforders of Britain traced	384

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Titre	British Education: Or, The Source of the Disorders of Great Britain: Being an Essay Towards Proving, that the Immorality, Ignorance, and False Taste, which So Generally Prevail, are the Natural and Necessary Consequences of the Present Defective System of Education. With an Attempt to Shew, that ...
Auteur	Thomas Sheridan
Éditeur	George Faulkner, 1756
Original provenant de	la New York Public Library
Numérisé	20 juin 2008
Longueur	392 pages

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