… more important than Latin and Greek, the Classical languages closely associated with an elite rather than a practical education. 6 5 . Samuel Richardson, Letters Written to and for Particular Friends on the Most Important Occasions … … to reform parish vestry government in Westminster in 1742, Lord Perceval (1711-70) sneeringly described them as having ‘Education just sufficient to enable them to read ’ and as ‘spend[ing] all their leisure Time and sometimes more than they …