...to the lordt of the councU, 28M April, 1576. — Collint. * Cox — Stanihurst says of the Irish, " They speak Latin like a vulgar language, learned in their common schools of leachcraft (ie physic) and law, whereat they begin children, and hold on 16 or 20 years." — Even so late as...

...asleep with tales vain and • frito»-^ lous. Without either precepts or observations of congruitie, they speak Latin like a vulgar language, learned in their common schools of leachecraft and law, whereat they begin children, ancl hold on sixteen or twentie years, conning by...

...1569. We are also to remember the valuable testimony of Stanihurst, who, describing the Irish, says, "they speak Latin like a vulgar language, learned...begin children, and hold on sixteen or twenty years." The reader will at once perceive that Lynch speaks of the mountain tribes, as Livy did of the Gauls,...

...observation of congruity they speak Latin like a vulgar tongue learned in their common schools of leechcraft and law, whereat they begin children, and hold on sixteen or twenty years, conning by rote the aphorisms of Hippocrates and the Civil Institutions, and a few other parings of...

...in the 40th of Edward III., only prohib* Sir James Ware, "Antiquities of Ireland," chap. viii. t " They speak Latin like a vulgar language, learned in their common schools of leuchcraft and law, whereat they begin children and .hold on sixteen or twenty years, conning by rote...

...in the 40th of Edward III., only prohib* Sir James Ware, " Antiquities of Ireland," chap. viii. t " They speak Latin like a vulgar language, learned in their common schools of leuchcraft and law, whereat they begin children and hold on sixteen or twenty years, conning by rote...

...1613. * " View of Ireland," pp. 4zi, 500. * Sir James Ware, " Antiquities of Ireland," chap. viii. t " They speak Latin like a vulgar language, learned in...begin children and hold on sixteen or twenty years, conning by rote the aphorisms of Ilippocrates and the Civil Institutes, and a few other parings of...

...Matthew Arnold's word) over miserable books." Think of what Campion saw (" Account of Ireland," 1571) : " They speak Latin like a vulgar language, learned in their common schools of leechcraft and law, whereat they begin children and hold on sixteen or twenty years, conning by rote...

...They (the Irish) speak Latin like a vulgar language, learned in their common schools of leechcraft and law, whereat they begin children, and hold on sixteen or twenty years, conning by rote the aphorisms of Hippocrates, and the Civil Institutes, and a few other parings of...

...martyr under Elizabeth, says, in his " Account of Ireland," written in May, 1571 : " They (the Irish) speak Latin like a vulgar language, learned in their common schools of leechcraft and Taw, whereat they begin children, and hold on sixteen or twenty years, conning by rote...