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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... in the British Museum . They are written in the same querulous style which the father always used , when soliciting money from the Queen and others who were his patrons . 1 6. The volume ends with a Glossary of words PREFACE .
... in the British Museum . They are written in the same querulous style which the father always used , when soliciting money from the Queen and others who were his patrons . 1 6. The volume ends with a Glossary of words PREFACE .
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... father's death , and , besides that , fearing the loss not only of his state but also of his life , fell from the emperor in the end of the year 1550 . Pietro Aloysio Farnesio , ( son to Papa Paulo Tertio ) duke of Placentia , father to ...
... father's death , and , besides that , fearing the loss not only of his state but also of his life , fell from the emperor in the end of the year 1550 . Pietro Aloysio Farnesio , ( son to Papa Paulo Tertio ) duke of Placentia , father to ...
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... father's death , and being best able to revenge it , was so feared of Gonzaga , that he thought himself never assured for Pietro Louis's death , as long as Octavio his son should live : for men never love when they have just cause to ...
... father's death , and being best able to revenge it , was so feared of Gonzaga , that he thought himself never assured for Pietro Louis's death , as long as Octavio his son should live : for men never love when they have just cause to ...
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... father , even when his grandfather was bishop of Rome , thought , that now as his house decayed , so his jeopardy increased : and therefore against a desperate evil began to seek for a desperate remedy , which was fet [ fetched ] from ...
... father , even when his grandfather was bishop of Rome , thought , that now as his house decayed , so his jeopardy increased : and therefore against a desperate evil began to seek for a desperate remedy , which was fet [ fetched ] from ...
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... father - in - law to the duke of Florence , used himself with much cruelty over the people of Naples , by exactions of money without measure , by inquisition of men's doings without order , and not only of men's doings , but also of ...
... father - in - law to the duke of Florence , used himself with much cruelty over the people of Naples , by exactions of money without measure , by inquisition of men's doings without order , and not only of men's doings , but also of ...
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Page 118 - I will tell you, quoth she, and tell you a Truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest Benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe Parents, and so gentle a Schoolmaster. For when 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 so perfectly, as God made the World...
Page 119 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me...
Page 118 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...
Page 118 - 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 118 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
Page 80 - 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 100 - 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 88 - 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 143 - England,) that one maid should go beyond you all in excellency of learning and knowledge of divers tongues. 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 118 - I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him.