Tracts And Treatises Of John De Wycliffe PDF Download

Excerpt from Tracts and Treatises, John De Wycliffe, D. D: With Selections and Translations, From His Manuscripts, and Latin Works Even the studies at Oxford and Cambridge in those times were for the most part Of an elementary kind, and the pupils were children. Such Seholars were received into the schools which Wood describes as the Nurseries of Grammarians, until they became capable of ascending to higher arts. Children, how ever, would not often be sent from distant parts of the kingdom to the universities, merely for the sake of such elementary ac quisitions as might be made with greater facility and equal effect nearer home. In the northern counties especially, the necessity for so doing was precluded. Edward I. Speaks of an establishment as existing in one of the border districts in his time, where two hundred young clerks were receiving education. In-some such establishment the northern students generally made such progress as qualified them when they came to the universities to enter upon those higher studies which were peculiar to those celebrated seats Of learning. In the provincial schools the Latin language was sedulously taught, as being in those times the only key of knowledge. When thus far instructed, the pupil passed to the study of certain approved works on grammar, rhetoric, and logic; and Obtained some knowledge of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. These sciences, which, it will be observed, are seven in number, were supposed to be so explained as to present within their mystic circle whatever was deemed important, or even pos sible to be known. But it is not probable that the preliminary studies of the young clerks in such seminaries Often embraced much beyond the study Of grammar; their progress in the higher arts being reserved to the course awaiting them at the university. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.