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Way in Schools still, and Children will be furnished there with a Stock of Words at least, when they come to know how to use them.
But, my Lord, Persons of Your Lordship's Condition may be permitted to go out of the common Road, and try to learn Things and Words together: I am of Opinion, that Language may be attained by the Reverse of the Method that is generally taken, and a Youth taught to know Grammar by Books, instead of Books by Grammar. This was Mr. Cowley's Case, and in some Measure l may say it was my own at the same School, but it is
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