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Lord Eldon's doctrine, that grammar schools, in the sense of the reign of / Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth, must necessarily mean schools for teaching / Latin and Greek, is, I think, founded on an insufficient knowledge of the / history and literature of the sixteenth century. Ben Jonson uses the term / "grammar" without any reference to the learned languages.
It is intolerable when men, who have no other knowledge, have not even a / competent understanding of that world in which they are always living, and / to which they refer every thing.
Although contemporary events obscure past events in a living man's life, / yet as soon as he is dead, and his whole life is a matter of history, one / action stands out as conspicuously as another.
A democracy, according to the prescript of pure reason, would, in fact, be / a church. There would he focal points in it, but no superior.