The Whole Works of Roger Ascham: A report and discourse of the affaires and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles his court ... The scholemaster. 1570. Latin poems. Grant's oration on the life and death of Roger Ascham. Seven letters of Giles Ascham, Roger Ascham's sons, to the Lord treasurer BurleighJ.R. Smith, 1864 |
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... diligently and noting truly all such great affairs and you know likewise , how desirous I am always to read any thing that you write . Write therefore , I pray you , that we your friends , being at home , may enjoy by your letters a ...
... diligently and noting truly all such great affairs and you know likewise , how desirous I am always to read any thing that you write . Write therefore , I pray you , that we your friends , being at home , may enjoy by your letters a ...
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... & c . - That is , with some doubt lest I should have magnified in my narrative things that were so great in real action . Ed . 1553 has lesse . just reproach . Then to mark diligently the causes , REPORT OF GERMANY . 5.
... & c . - That is , with some doubt lest I should have magnified in my narrative things that were so great in real action . Ed . 1553 has lesse . just reproach . Then to mark diligently the causes , REPORT OF GERMANY . 5.
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Roger Ascham, Giles Ascham John Allen Giles. just reproach . Then to mark diligently the causes , counsels , acts , and issues in all great attempts : and in causes , what is just or unjust ; in counsels , what is pro- posed wisely or ...
Roger Ascham, Giles Ascham John Allen Giles. just reproach . Then to mark diligently the causes , counsels , acts , and issues in all great attempts : and in causes , what is just or unjust ; in counsels , what is pro- posed wisely or ...
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... diligently done ; he loveth learn- ing and honoureth learned men ; and therefore anno 1544 he founded a new university in Prussia , called Mons Regius , bringing thither , with plentiful things , excellent learned men in all tongues and ...
... diligently done ; he loveth learn- ing and honoureth learned men ; and therefore anno 1544 he founded a new university in Prussia , called Mons Regius , bringing thither , with plentiful things , excellent learned men in all tongues and ...
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... early ; and writing all the fore- noon very diligently , yet what he did no man knew ; so that his absence bred a talk in the court , and his sudden and secret study wrought a wonderful jealousy of his 34 REPORT OF GERMANY .
... early ; and writing all the fore- noon very diligently , yet what he did no man knew ; so that his absence bred a talk in the court , and his sudden and secret study wrought a wonderful jealousy of his 34 REPORT OF GERMANY .
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Page 114 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...
Page 114 - I wist, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 76 - From Paul's I went, to Eton sent, To learn straightways the Latin phrase, Where fifty-three stripes given to me At once I had. For fault but small, or none at all, It came to pass thus beat I was; See, Udal, see the mercy of thee To me, poor lad.
Page 86 - For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning as is praise,. But if the child miss, either in forgetting a word, or in changing a good with a worse, or misordering the sentence, I would not have the master either frown or chide with him, if the child have done his diligence and used no truandship therein.
Page 100 - And it is pity, that commonly more care is had, yea and that among very wise men, to find out rather a cun» ning man for their horse, than a cunning man for their children. They say nay in word, but they do so in deed : for to the one they will gladly give a stipend of two hundred crowns by the year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should ; for he suffereth them to have tame and...
Page 235 - Cheke, he, and I, for that part of true Imitation, had many pleasant talks together, in comparing the precepts of Aristotle, and Horace de Arte Poetica, with the examples of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca.
Page 139 - Point forth six of the best given gentlemen of this court, and all they together show not so much good will, spend not so much time, bestow not so many hours daily, orderly, and constantly, for the increase of learning and knowledge, as doth the Queen's Majesty herself.
Page 96 - Mark all mathematical heads which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.
Page 84 - FTER the child hath learned perfectly the eight parts of speech, let him then learn the right joining together of substantives with adjectives. the noun with the verb, the relative with the antecedent.
Page 114 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...