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cates was rather of opinion, that what we had to learn was, how to do good, and avoid evil.
Ὅττι τοι ἐν μεγάροισι κακόντ᾽ ἀγαθόντε τέτυκται.
Of institutions we may judge by their effects. From this wonder-working academy, I do not know that there ever proceeded any man very eminent for knowledge: its only genuine product, I believe, is a small History of Poetry, written in Latin by his nephew Philips, of which perhaps none of my readers has ever heard[1].
That in his school, as in every thing else which he undertook, he laboured with great diligence, there is no reason for doubting. One part of his method deserves general imitation. He was careful to instruct his scholars in religion. Every Sunday was spent upon theology; of which
- ↑ "We may be sure at least, that Dr. Johnson had never seen the book he speaks of; for it is entirely composed in English, though its title begins with two Latin words, 'Theatrum Poetarum; or, A complete Collection of the Poets, &c. a circumstance that probably missed the biographer of Milton." European Magazine, June 1787, p. 388.R.
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