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 teenth century. Lord Herbert seems to have 

 had a fair knowledge of Latin and Greek and of 

 logic when, in his thirteenth year, he went up to 

 University College, Oxford. Later, he " did attain 

 the knowledge of the French, Italian and Spanish 

 languages/' and, also, learnt to sing his part at 

 first sight in music and to play on the lute. He 

 approved of " so much logic as to enable men to 

 distinguish between truth and falsehood and help 

 them to discover fallacies, sophisms and that 

 which the schoolmen call vicious arguments " ; 

 and this, he considered, should be followed by 

 " some good sum of philosophy." He held it 

 also requisite to study geography, and this in 

 no narrow sense, laying stress upon the methods 

 of government, religions and manners of the 

 several states as well as on their relationships 

 inter se and their policies. Though he advocated 

 an acquaintance with " the use of the celestial 

 globes/' he did " not conceive yet the knowledge 

 of judicial astronomy so necessary, but only 

 for general predictions ; particular events being 

 neither intended by nor collected out of the stars/' 

 Arithmetic and geometry he thought fit to learn, 

 as being most useful for keeping accounts and 

 enabling a gentleman to understand fortifications. 



