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    Remarks upon education, with respect to the learned languages: shewing their importance to good literature, and a due cultivation of the human understanding. By the Rev. William Duke. Copy-right secured.

    Duke, William, 1757-1840. | Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795]
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    An oration by Mr. Peter Burman against the studies of humanity. ... Translated into English, and the original annext.

    Burman, Pieter, 1668-1741. | Date: 1722
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    Essays. On poetry and music, as they affect the mind. On laughter, and ludicrous composition. On the utility of classical learning. By James Beattie, LL. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen.

    Beattie, James, 1735-1803. | Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]
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    Occasional thoughts on the study and character of classical authors, on the course of litterature [sic], and the present plan of a learned education. ...

    Gordon, John, Archdeacon of Lincoln. | Date: 1762
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    An oration by Mr. Peter Burman against the studies of humanity. Shewing, that the learned languages, history, eloquence and critick, are not only useless, but also dangerous to the studies of law, physick, philosophy, and above all of divinity; to which last Poetry is a special help. Translated into English, and the original annext.

    Burman, Pieter, 1668-1741. | Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]
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