Ebenezer Bailey
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 132
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... "Nay, nay, my little girl," quoth he, "It was a famous victory, "And every body praised the duke Who such a fight did win." "But what good came of it at last V Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he; "But 'twas a famous victory" LESSON LXXVIII. The Study of History; or a Solid and a Superficial Education contrasted.--From Ruhnken. Teacher. I Hear that you have made great progress in history, and that you have at home a very able instructress in it. Pupil. Yes, that is the case; our governess knows all history; and I have profited much from her instruction. T. But what have you learned? Tell me. P. All history. T. But what is all history? P. (Hesitating.) All history? Why it is--it is--what is in books. T. Well, I have here many books on history, as Herodotus, Livy, Tacitus and others; I suppose you know those authors. P. No, I do not; but I know the facts related in history. T. I dare say you do; I see, however, that, out of your knowledge of all history, we must deduct a knowledge of the authors who have written it. But perhaps that governess of yours has informed you who Homer, Hesiod, Plato and the other poets and philosophers were? P. I don't think she has; for, if she had, I should have remembered it. T. Well, we must then make one farther deduction from your knowledge of all history; and that is, the history of the poets and philosophers. P. Why, I said just now that I did not learn those things; I learned matters of fact and events. T. But those things, as you call them, were men: however, I now understand you; the knowledge you acquired was a knowledge of things, but not of men; as, for instance, you learned that the city of Rome was built, but you did not learn any thing of the men that built it. P. True, ...