...in the various branches of a sound education, comprehending reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, geography, navigation, surveying, practical mathematics,...merit or warrant: I would have them taught facts and tilings, rather than words or signs: And, especially, I desire, that by every* proper means a pure...

...surveying, practical mathematics, astronomy, natural philosophy, chemistry, physics, French and Spanish, and such other learning and science as the capacities of the several scholars may merit or warrant. Page 22. 24. The testator does not forbid, but neither recommends the Greek and Latin. Page 22. 25....

...Sprache exprefs genannt ; die Disciplin soll mild , aber ernst seyn, überhaupt, heifst es wortlich: „I would have them taught facts and things rather than words or signs , and especially I detire, that by every proper means a pure attachment to our republican institutions, and to the sacred...

..."in the various branches of a sound education, comprehending reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, geography, navigation, surveying, practical mathematics,...French and Spanish languages— (I do not forbid, but [ do not recommend the Greek and Latin Ianguagcs) — and such other learning and science as the capacities...

...in the various branches of a sound education, comprehending reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, geography, navigation, surveying, practical mathematics,...taught facts and things, rather than words or signs." This enumeration of studies, plainly points to that kind of education terined practical or useful ;...

...mathematics, astronomy, natural, chemical, and experimental philosophy; and the French and Spanish languages, and such other learning and science as the capacities of the scholars may merit or want. The Greek and Latin languages are not forbidden, but are not recommended....

...in the various branches of a sound education, comprehending reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, geography, navigation, surveying, practical mathematics,...capacities of the several scholars may merit or warrant." This excludes nothing — nay, it embraces everything necessary to form a well-educated man. How far...

...orator fastened upon that part of the old usurer's will, which is in parentheses, and which says — (" I do not forbid, but I do not recommend the Greek and Latin languages"). " This excludes nothing," says the king of the bankers ; " nay," he adds, " it embraces everything...

..."in the various branches of a sound education, comprehending reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, geography, navigation, surveying, practical mathematics,...capacities of the several scholars may merit or warrant." This excludes nothing — nay, it embraces every thing necessary to form a well-educated man. How far...

..."in the various branches of a sound education, comprehending reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, geography, navigation, surveying, practical mathematics,...capacities of the several scholars may merit or warrant." This excludes nothing — nay, it embraces every thing necessary to form a well-educated man. How far...