[869] Locke, Some thoughts concerning Education (1693), ed. J. W. Adamson, in Educational Writings of Locke, London, 1912, p. 125.
[870] Op. cit. p. 127.
[871] "Why does the Learning of Latin and Greek need the rod, when French and Italian need it not?" (op. cit. p. 69). And again, "Those who teach any of the modern languages with success never amuse their scholars to make speeches or verses either in French or Italian, their business being language barely and not invention" (op. cit. p. 71).
[872] J. Palairet, New Royal French Grammar, The Hague, 1738.
[873] Languages, he held, were best learnt by rules of a simple nature, comparison of the points of difference and resemblance between the known and unknown language, and exercises on familiar subjects.
[874] A compendious way of teaching Ancient and Modern Languages ..., 2nd edition, London, 1723, pp. 45 et seq.
[875] He would then learn Italian and Spanish on the same plan.
[876] An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen ..., 1673.
[877] Essay on Education, 1711. The case of Queen Elizabeth, who is said to have learnt only one or two Latin rules, is also quoted.
[878] An Essay on the education of children in the first rudiments of learning, together with a narrative of what knowledge Wm. Wotton, a child of 6 years of age, had attained unto upon the Improvement of those Rudiments in the Latin, Greek and Hebrew Tongues. Reprinted, London, 1753, p. 38.