And though I questioned my ability to carry on that work to its due
height and proportion, yet as that was not proposed, but an
initiation only by accidence into grammar, I consented to the
proposal as a present expedient till a more qualified person should
be found, without further treaty or mention of terms between us than
that of mutual friendship. And to render this digression from my
own studies the less uneasy to my mind, I recollected and often
thought of that rule in Lilly:
Qui docet indoctos, licet indoctissimus esset,
Ipse brevi reliquis doctior esse queat.
He that the unlearned doth teach may quickly be
More learned than they, though most unlearned he.
With this consideration I undertook this province, and left it not
until I married, which was not till the year 1669, near seven years
from the time I came thither. In which time, having the use of my
friend's books, as well as of my own, I spent my leisure hours much
in reading, not without some improvement to myself in my private
studies, which (with the good success of my labours bestowed on the
children, and the agreeableness of conversation which I found in the
family) rendered my undertaking more satisfactory, and my stay there
more easy to me.
Pages:
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215