The Great Didactic of John Amos Comenius

The Great Didactic of John Amos Comenius (1896)
by Johan Amos Comenius, translated by Maurice Walter Keatinge

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English translation of Didactica Magna, originally written between 1627 and 1638 (in Czech) and first published in 1657 (reworked, in Latin).

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THE GREAT DIDACTIC

of

JOHN AMOS COMENIUS

Exsump: M: S:

G Glouer fe.

Loe, here an Exile! who to serue his God,
Hath sharply tasted of proud Pashurs Rod,
Whose learning, Piety, & true worth, being knowne
To all the world, makes all the world his owne.

F·Q:

THE

GREAT DIDACTIC

of

JOHN AMOS COMENIUS

NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME ENGLISHED

WITH INTRODUCTIONS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL,

BY

M. W. KEATINGE, B.A.
LATE EXHIBITIONER OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD

LONDON

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK

1896

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction III.—Biographical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		1
Introduction II.—Historical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		103
The Great Didactic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		153
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		455
Appendix—The Works of Comenius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		461

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