"firm. They were to learn but little at a time, "and never be idle in school. Thus expressly are "some of the leading principles of the new school "laid down in Lily's Grammar: so that, in fact, 66 many things, which might be likely to provoke opposition as innovations, appear, when investigated, to be in the spirit, and even according to the "letter of that system which was digested by some "of the ablest and most learned men of a learned age. "One thing more must be remembered in order "to form a clear judgment of the system which Henry VIII. established in all grammar schools. "Latin was to be taught colloquially. It was by help of some use of speaking, which must "necessarily be had,' that the boy was to be 'brought past the wearisome bitterness of his "learning." " 66 6 "Et quoties loqueris, memor esto loquare Latine, "is a law delivered by Lily himself among his "Monita Pædagogica. Whoever has observed with "what facility children in a foreign land acquire a 66 foreign language, will at once perceive how "much boys must insensibly have learned from "one another, when this rule was observed, and "and how soon, with this assistance, the regular 66 part of the language would almost insensibly be 66 "rendered familiar, as it is in learning a mother"6 tongue. No one has informed us at what time "this practice fell into disuse; nor when the fur"ther and greater departure from the original "system took place, in consequence of which boys were carried on straight through the grammar, " and made to proceed, as soon as they had done "with the Accidence, into those didactic poems, "the most rueful of their kind [Propria quæ mari"bus and As in præsenti], in the composition of "which, Lily and Robinson must have tortured "their brains, as much as poor lads have been "tortured at the other end, in the desperate busi"ness of committing them to memory. 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