Hand-Book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English (Classic Reprint) - Hiram Corson

That is, To me it seemeth better, if to you so it seem eth, that we cause, as we full easily may with God's help, if we the repose have, that all the youth that now is in the Angle-stock of free men, of those that the means have, be to learning put, the while that they none other business ne can, till first that they well can English writing read. Let one teach afterward further in Latin speech those that one further teach will, and to higher hood advance will.

The importance, moral and intellectual, to the individ ual, to society, and to the state, of a thorough cultivation of the vernacular tongue, will soon, it is hoped, be fully and practically recognized by all educators and institutions of learning. What Thomas De Quincey, the greatest mas ter of English prose that this century has produced, the greatest, perhaps, produced by any century, has said in regard to the young pot/zr obligation to attain to purity, precision, compass, and idiomatic energy of diction, is scarcely less applicable to every young man who would reach the highest culture of which he is capable. If, he says, in his somewhat ungenerous essay on the poet Keats, there is one thing in this world that, next aer the ag of his country and its spotless honour, should be wholly in the eyes of the young poet, - it is the language of his country. He should spend the third part of his life in studying this language and cultivating its total resources.

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