...ancient crimes often lead us to imitate or tolerate them."29 Two decades later, his views were unchanged. "Were every Greek and Latin book (the New Testament...consumed in a bonfire, the world would be the wiser and better for it," he thundered. "Delenda, delenda est lingua Rom ana should be the voice of reason and...

...Philadelphia physician was concerned, "were every Greek and Latin book (the New Testament excepred) consumed in a bonfire, the world would be the wiser and the berrer for it." Rush classed such books "with Negro slavery and spirituous liquors, ... as, though...

...ancient crimes often lead us to imitate or tolerate them."66 Two decades later, his views were unchanged. "Were every Greek and Latin book (the New Testament...consumed in a bonfire, the world would be the wiser and better for it," he thundered. "'Delenda, delenda est lingua Romana' should be the voice of reason and...

..."Tranquillizer," a chair designed to restrain maniacal patients. In a letter of October 2, Rush had quipped, "Were every Greek and Latin book (the New Testament...consumed in a bonfire, the world would be the wiser and better for it" (Letters 2: 1067). Adams replied on October H, opining that only a period of confinement...

...wonderful increase of knowledge in all useful arts and sciences." "* He called it "monkish learning," and declared : "Were every Greek and Latin book (the New...consumed in a bonfire, the world would be the wiser and better for it." They were suitable for the idle and the rich, but not for the needs of the modern world....

...Latin and Greek and the classical authors, when they should be reading English and French writers. "Were every Greek and Latin book (the New Testament...consumed in a bonfire, the world would be the wiser and better for it." They were suitable for the idle and the rich but not for the needs of the modern world....