Excerpt from Classical Study: Its Value, Illustrated by Extracts From the Writings of Eminent ScholarsForty years later, a series of spirited papers, bearing the signature Rumford, appeared in the Boston Centinel, which were collected and published in 1824, making a pamphlet of one hundred and forty pages, The author of these Essays maintains that the dead languages are no guide to the signification of English words' no guide to English grammar no benefit to style that classical literature is of little value as a source of knowledge that classical studies are not the best means of strengthening the understanding', and of not much value as a facility to foreign living languages.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.