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See also:ROBERT See also:AINSWORTH (166o-1743) , See also:English schoolmaster and author, was See also:born at See also:Eccles, near See also:Manchester, in See also:September 166o . After teaching for some See also:time at See also:Lever's See also:Grammar School in See also:Bolton, he removed to See also:London, where he conducted a boarding-school, first at Bethnal See also:Green and then at See also:Hackney . He soon made a moderate See also:fortune which gave him leisure to pursue his classical studies . See also:Ainsworth's name is associated with his Latin-English See also:Dictionary, begun in 1714, and published in 1736 as See also:Thesaurus linguae Latinae compendiarius . It was See also:long extensively used in See also:schools, and often reprinted, the later See also:editions being revised And enlarged by other hands, but it is now superseded . Ainsworth was also the author of some useful See also:works on classical antiquities, and a sensible See also:treatise on See also:education, en-titled The most Natural and Easy Way of Institution (1698), in which he See also:advocates the teaching of Latin by conversational methods and deprecates See also:punishment of any sort . He died in London on the 4th of See also:April 1743 . |
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