A new method of educating children, or, Rules and directions for the well ordering and governing them, during their younger years : shewing that they are capable, at the age of three years, to be caused to learn languages, and most arts and sciences ... also, what methods is to be used by breeding women, and what diet is most proper for them, and their children ... / Written (to dis-engage the world from those ill customs in education, it has been so long used to) by Tho. Tryon.

  • Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
Date:
1695
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new method of educating children, or, Rules and directions for the well ordering and governing them, during their younger years : shewing that they are capable, at the age of three years, to be caused to learn languages, and most arts and sciences ... also, what methods is to be used by breeding women, and what diet is most proper for them, and their children ... / Written (to dis-engage the world from those ill customs in education, it has been so long used to) by Tho. Tryon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    can root out or expunge them. Some few there are, indeed, that -are born with more propitious. and favourable Natures, eS Queis ex meliore luto fyrxit = precordia Titan, —— whom Phebus has form'd of better Clay, that by the help of Inftru@ion, furmount the Difficulties of an ill and ‘prejudicate Education. But thefe are very little beholden to their Parents and ~Tutors for Good Manners and Sobriety, but chiefly: to the Portion of good Nature, -and God’s Gifts, that.aréborn in them. The Fear of God, ‘Temperance, Cleannefs and Frugality, are taught by Precept and Example; even as Arts and Sciences are ; as alfo are Difobedience, Intemperance and Diforder. The principal Time of Teaching and Confirming Vertue and Vice, ‘Tempe- rance’ and -_Intemperance, Arts atid Sciences, Induftry and Wantonnefs, is from Three Years of Age to Ten: whatever is faftened to them within _that time, will continue for ever, and ' ‘will naturally grow ftrong, and im- narle. +e)