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...seventeen (supposing he neither loses nor gains time), to be able to obtain his degree of bachelor. In the second or third class Latin grammar is begun, translations and themes are required, and sacred history is studied. During the fourth, fifth, and sixth, Greek is added; then Greek and Roman history. At the end of the sixth year the student is in condition to translate Cicero and Virgil, Xenophon and Plutarch. Then follow the classes of Rhetoric and Philosophy, without doubt the two most interesting and profitable. In view of their importance, I beg leave to acquaint you with some...
...ancient Roman custom...
...recent defeat of the Ministry in England is something more than the regular political seesaw which is usually kept up by the two parties. In it we see an evidence of the steady growth, in England as well as America, of the Roman Catholic Church; though, twenty years ago, few would have expected to see two such anomalies as the Romanists supporting the conservative government in England, and leading the ultra-radical movement in New York. But it has often been the policy of that church to make the means subservient to the end; and we need feel no surprise...
...useful on the farm, and is never too young to work. He drives the cows to pasture, weeds the garden, etc. Thus, even supposing that he is sent to school during the few winter months, from the time he partakes of his first communion, (and in the Roman Catholic Church this takes place at the age of ten or eleven,) he is finally withdrawn from school. The little he knows is now forgotten; for the peasant, once having left school, writes or reads no more. He has a natural horror of books and paper. He looks back upon his school...
...heard merely a general statement of the case. First, is it not better, in the nature of things, to suppose that William and Hildebrand had independent plans, which happened to coincide in some particulars, than to suppose that William was a mere tool of the Roman...