ISBN: 9781154851083

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...Exercises. Calvin has borne high testimony to the worth and skill of Cordery as a teacher. In his Commentary to the Thessalonians, dedicated to his preceptor, he says: I wish to testify to posterity that, if any utility accrue to any from my writings, they may acknowledge it as in part flowing from thee. From his school, the College de la Marche, in Paris, and later at Geneva, his influence radiated over the whole learned world. Hoole, writing in 1652, says that the worth of Cordery was proved by the scores, if not hundreds, of impressions of his Colloquies in this and foreign countries. One of the most venerable, if not venerated, of pedagogic tools of the olden time is the Colloquies of Maturin Cordier. Such a sign of educational awakening may be regarded as not the least hopeful of the secular movements which accompanied the Reformation. The Colloquies, as the work of a French Protestant reformer, was the partner of the Catechism, on the side of profane learning. As the one supplied, in neat doses, the authorised theological pabulum, the other furnished a ready-made suit in which a speaker might simulate to some purpose the labour of thinking without the trouble of the operation itself. Both are but artificial supports, and, as such, doubtless served a makeshift existence. Both gratified the scholastic passion for knowledge, well ordered under the hand of authority. The persistent vitality of these methods, acquiesced in without protest for centuries in Scotland, is significant of profound intellectual stagnation. Thinkers, from Colet and Lilly to Locke, had, more or less dimly, thought out a better way, but in Scotland the reign of Cordery and the Catechism was unquestioned. Scott''s kindly allusion to him as an old friend is well known. In t... James Colville, Books, History, Some Old-fashioned Educationists Books>History, General Books LLC<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 52 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=3mm, Gew.=91gr, [GR: 25500 - TB/Geschichte], [SW: - History - General History], Kartoniert/Broschiert The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Edinburgh, London: W. Green<

ISBN: 9781154851083

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ISBN: 9781154851083

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