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By Vivian Salmon
This quantity brings jointly a couple of papers by way of Vivian Salmon, formerly released in quite a few journals and collections which are unusual, and maybe even inaccessible, to historians of the examine of language. The valuable subject of the amount is the learn of language in England within the seventeenth century. Papers within the first part deal with facets of the background of language educating. the second one part involves 3 articles at the historical past of grammatical concept. The papers within the 3rd and ultimate part take care of the hunt for the ‘universal language’.
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This was Georgius Haloinus (or Halewyn) ' Gominius '—lord of Comines in Belgium, friend and correspondent of Erasmus, and patron of Despauterius, the grammarian whose work became one of the standard textbooks in sixteenth century France and the Low Countries. Haloinus's work on the reform of Latin-teaching was entitled Restauratio Linguae Latinae, published in 1533 though written some twenty-five years earlier. The entry for 'Georges de Halewyn ' in the Biographie Nationale... de Belgique states t h a t the writer had been unable to trace any copy of the work, though one had been seen and described b y a M.
Had Mr Brook knowne or well considered, the secret dependences or hidden sympathick relations and actions that are betweene the senses memory, and the understandinge and what beames of lights and reflexions of assimilation howrly streame and flow betweene them he would haue acknowledgeth [sic] that hee could noe more in act or practice giue me a pure action of the senses without interminglinge of the Action of the memorie; or of the memory without an influx of the vertue of the understanding than he can actually shew me a pure sublunarie.
His 'sensical' instruction is illustrated in his grammar-teaching. H e begins Latin b y taking t h e pupil's h a n d a n d demonstrating on hand and fingers w h a t is m e a n t b y number. H e t h e n takes English words such as king, queen and board to illustrate w h a t is m e a n t by gender, a n d gives examples to show what is m e a n t b y grammatical terms such as comparison. This is a long and detailed t e x t which is more i m p o r t a n t for the history of education t h a n for t h a t of linguistics; before leaving it, it is worth noting one piece of observation which has a bearing on later theories.