The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times / With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period

by K. Rebillon Lambley

[1071] De monumentis publicis latine inscribendis. Goujet, Bibliothèque françoise (1740-56), i. p. 13.

[1072] Bayle, Œuvres, iv. p. 190, quoted by Charlanne, L'Influence française en Angleterre, pt. ii. p. 202.

[1073] F. Watson, Grammar Schools, p. 312.

[1074] Epilogue to Bellamira.

[1075] London, 1678.

[1076] Young Gallants' Academy, 1674, p. 44.

[1077] A little later Swift wrote that "the current opinion prevails that the study of Latin and Greek is loss of time...." (Works, 1841, ii. p. 291).

[1078] A Dialogue ... concerning Education, Miscellaneous Works, London, 1751, p. 338.

[1079] Even the universities had to give some recognition to the modern language. A Professorship of Modern History and Modern Languages was founded at both universities in 1724. Cp. Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, iv. 128.

[1080] "Some Thoughts," Educational Writings of Locke, 1912, p. 125.