Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.
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- Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.
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- Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
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- 1659.
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"Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34111.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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Pueri exercent se cursu, sive super Glaciem 1. Diabatris, 2. ubi etiam vehuntur Trahis; 3. sive in campo designantes Lineam, 4. quam; qui vincere cupit, adtingere, at non ultrà procurrere, debet.
Olim decurrebant Cursores 5. inter Cancellos 6. ad Metam, 7. & qui primùm contingebat eam, accipiebat Brabéum (praeminm) 8. à Brabeutâ 9.
Hodie habentur Hastiludia, (ubi Lanceâ 10. petitur Circulus 11.) loco Equiriorum quae in desuetudinem abierunt.
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Boyes exercise themselves in runing, either upon the Ice, 1. in Scrick-shooes, 2. where they are carried also upon Sleds; 3. or in the open field making a Line, 4. which, he that desireth to win, ought to touch, but not to run beyond it.
Heretofore Runners 5. ran betwixt Railes 6. to the Goal, 7. and he that touched it first; received the prize 8. from him that gave the prize. 9.
At this day Tilting, (or the quin∣tain) is used, where a Hoop is struck at with Trunchion, 11. instead of Horse-races, which are grown out of use.