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Spanish, Italian, and German languages ^ as in a summary or handbook. Therefore strive to obtain instrucand learn tion. Open this book, peruse by heart. Having done so, you will, with the help of God, find that you understand all arts and letters." Many other educational works of Komensky could be enumerated such are The Violet Bed of Christian Youth, The Garden of Letters and of Wisdom, &c. Komensky worked with particular energy at these works when he, about the year 1632, hoped, as already mentioned, to be able to return to Bohemia and reorganise similar motive induced him to the schools there. write the curious work entitled Haggceus Redivivus, which, in spite of its Latin title, was written in Bohemian, and which has quite recently been published for the first time. In this book Komensky endeavoured to instruct the brethren as to the manner in which they should reorganise their ecclesiastical institution after their return to Bohemia, for which Komensky still hoped. Komensky, probably soon after his arrival at Lissa, "pansophic "studies began his philosophical, or rather for philosophy was to him still the handmaiden of rather belated standpoint. theology, then already has already been mentioned that at Lissa he composed table of contents of his future general plan and pansophic works, to which he gave the name of Synopsis

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quote from the Elzevir edition of 1611, edited by Duez, which written in the languages mentioned above. The passage, of course, varied was published. in each edition according to the languages in which