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(2)“Logike and Rhetorike ; ” (3) “ Arithmetike and
Geometrie, or any other arte.”
Henry Peacham (1622) gives this list of subjects
in which a noble gentleman should be instructed :—
Style (which has to be practised after Latin and
English models),1 History, Cosmographie, Geography,
Geometry, Poetry, Musicke, Antiquities (Statues, In-
scriptions, Coynes), Drawing, Limning, Painting,
Blazonry, Armory.2 For bodily exercise he recom-
mends “ coiting, throwing the hammer, sledge, and
such like; running, jumping, leaping, and wrestling.”
It will be observed that none of these writers
mentions any modern foreign languages. The reason is
that they were not considered as “learning” in those
days, and that, if they were acquired, it was not so
much by study as by practically conversing with
foreign masters.
Lord Herbert of Cherbury {Autobiography, ed. Lee,
p. 46) recommends the following course of studies for
a gentleman’s son
Before going to a University he ought to learn
Greek and Latin and other languages. The first six
months at the University should be devoted to a little
logic, the following year to both the grounds of the
Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy, and to reading
Severinus, Franciscus Patricius, and Telesius. After
1 As Latin authors to be read at the University, he names Tully,
Caesar, Cornelius, Tacitus, Titus Livius, Quintus Curtius, and
Sallust; besides, the young gentleman might read Greek as
well.
2 On this subject Peacham wrote a special book, The Gentle-
man's Exercise, 1634.
(2)“Logike and Rhetorike ; ” (3) “ Arithmetike and
Geometrie, or any other arte.”
Henry Peacham (1622) gives this list of subjects
in which a noble gentleman should be instructed :—
Style (which has to be practised after Latin and
English models),1 History, Cosmographie, Geography,
Geometry, Poetry, Musicke, Antiquities (Statues, In-
scriptions, Coynes), Drawing, Limning, Painting,
Blazonry, Armory.2 For bodily exercise he recom-
mends “ coiting, throwing the hammer, sledge, and
such like; running, jumping, leaping, and wrestling.”
It will be observed that none of these writers
mentions any modern foreign languages. The reason is
that they were not considered as “learning” in those
days, and that, if they were acquired, it was not so
much by study as by practically conversing with
foreign masters.
Lord Herbert of Cherbury {Autobiography, ed. Lee,
p. 46) recommends the following course of studies for
a gentleman’s son
Before going to a University he ought to learn
Greek and Latin and other languages. The first six
months at the University should be devoted to a little
logic, the following year to both the grounds of the
Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy, and to reading
Severinus, Franciscus Patricius, and Telesius. After
1 As Latin authors to be read at the University, he names Tully,
Caesar, Cornelius, Tacitus, Titus Livius, Quintus Curtius, and
Sallust; besides, the young gentleman might read Greek as
well.
2 On this subject Peacham wrote a special book, The Gentle-
man's Exercise, 1634.