A Memoir of Roger AschamChautauqua Press, 1890 - 252 Seiten |
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... style , and is so instructive every way , that it is now republished entire . - There is something to interest the general reader in this brief record of a life , which had connection , more or less intimate , with four successive ...
... style , and is so instructive every way , that it is now republished entire . - There is something to interest the general reader in this brief record of a life , which had connection , more or less intimate , with four successive ...
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... style of living , but in buying books . He once offered to commute a part of his " fees " for an old classical book . " He was ready to assist students with advice , and generous to poor scholars , " said a contemporary . This short ...
... style of living , but in buying books . He once offered to commute a part of his " fees " for an old classical book . " He was ready to assist students with advice , and generous to poor scholars , " said a contemporary . This short ...
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... style . Thus , in the posthumous treatise , he says , " I dare venture a good wager , " etc. Again , " I have been a looker - on in the cock - pit of learning these many years . " Let us , however , follow the advice of D :. Johnson ...
... style . Thus , in the posthumous treatise , he says , " I dare venture a good wager , " etc. Again , " I have been a looker - on in the cock - pit of learning these many years . " Let us , however , follow the advice of D :. Johnson ...
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... style . However great was his learning , he was not always immured in his chamber , but being valetudinary , and weak of body , thought it necessary to spend many hours in such exercises as might best relieve him after the fatigue of ...
... style . However great was his learning , he was not always immured in his chamber , but being valetudinary , and weak of body , thought it necessary to spend many hours in such exercises as might best relieve him after the fatigue of ...
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... style which to the ears of that age was undoubtedly mellifluous , and which is now a very val- uable specimen of genuine English . By the death of King Edward in 1553 , the Reforma- tion was stopped , Morisine was recalled , and ...
... style which to the ears of that age was undoubtedly mellifluous , and which is now a very val- uable specimen of genuine English . By the death of King Edward in 1553 , the Reforma- tion was stopped , Morisine was recalled , and ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration amidst amongst Archbishop Whately archery Arnold Ascham authority believe blessed boys chapel character Christian Cicero common course death delight doth duty earnest effect England English evil expression favorite fear feeling felt friends give Greek head master heart Herodotus hope impression intercourse interest Isle of Wight JACOB ABBOTT kind knowledge labor Laleham language Latin learning lectures less lessons letters live look manner ment mind moral nature ness never once opinions Oxford pain peculiar pleasure preached principles public school pupils recollections religious reverence ROGER ASCHAM Rugby Rugby School Sallust scholars Scholemaster school discipline schoolmaster seemed sense Sermons Sixth Form solemn speak spirit style teacher teaching thing THOMAS ARNOLD thought Thucydides tion truth tutor unto Walter Mildmay Warminster whilst whole Winchester wish WOFFORD COLLEGE words writing young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 178 - When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Seite 245 - If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not ? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Seite 47 - And how came you, madame," quoth I, " to this deep knowledge of pleasure, and what did chiefly allure you unto it: seeing, not many women, but very few men, have attained thereunto." "I will tell you," quoth she, " and tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at.
Seite 245 - Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed.
Seite 48 - And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures in very deed be but trifles and trouble* unto me.
Seite 244 - The day after tomorrow is my birthday, if I am permitted to live to see it, — my fortyseventh birthday since my birth. How large a portion of my life on earth is already passed! And then — what is to follow this life? How visibly my outward work seems contracting and softening away into the gentler employments of old age. In one sense, how nearly can I now say,
Seite 146 - will never be what it might be, and what it ought to be." The remonstrances which he encountered both on public and private grounds were vehement and numerous. But on these terms alone had he taken his office ; and he solemnly and repeatedly declared, that on no other terms could he hold it, or justify the existence of the public school system in a Christian country.
Seite 47 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered that I think myself in hell till time come that I must go to Mr.
Seite 47 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...
Seite 47 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even...