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54 by no means generally practicable. However, there is no Necessity, where we are not tied up by the Course and Discipline, which must, if possible, be maintained in Schools, if we be not obliged by those Methods, there is no Necessity of burthening the Memory with an exact Repetition of the Rules: 'Tis enough from the Authors which are read, to learn the Use, and Application of them: And if, after this, a clear Explication of the Meaning were joined to the bare Grammatical Construction, young Scholars would be able to understand what they read, and be pleased to Rh