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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... labours , having no soldier under him that can better away with heat and cold , or longer suffer hunger and thirst than he himself . His apparel is soldier - like , better known by his III 3 REPORT OF GERMANY . 33 and meaning seemeth to ...
... labours , having no soldier under him that can better away with heat and cold , or longer suffer hunger and thirst than he himself . His apparel is soldier - like , better known by his III 3 REPORT OF GERMANY . 33 and meaning seemeth to ...
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... labour thither , and all his wages there , besides the loss of his honour in taking such shame of his enemies , and receiving such unkind- ness of the emperor . The marquis was not so grieved , but Duke Maurice was as well contented ...
... labour thither , and all his wages there , besides the loss of his honour in taking such shame of his enemies , and receiving such unkind- ness of the emperor . The marquis was not so grieved , but Duke Maurice was as well contented ...
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... labour and pain . He was once ( men say ) given to drinking , but now he had clean left it , contented with small diet and little sleep in these last years , and therefore had a waking and working head ; and became so witty and secret ...
... labour and pain . He was once ( men say ) given to drinking , but now he had clean left it , contented with small diet and little sleep in these last years , and therefore had a waking and working head ; and became so witty and secret ...
Page 85
... to end this book ; which , if he allow , I shall think my labours well employed , and shall not much esteem the misliking of any others . * Soph . Ed . Col. , 1129 . And I trust he shall think the better of it PREFACE . 85.
... to end this book ; which , if he allow , I shall think my labours well employed , and shall not much esteem the misliking of any others . * Soph . Ed . Col. , 1129 . And I trust he shall think the better of it PREFACE . 85.
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... labour that his worthy grandfather purposed he should have done : and if any other do take either profit or pleasure hereby , they have cause to thank Mr. Robert Sackville , for whom especially this my Schoolmaster was provided . And ...
... labour that his worthy grandfather purposed he should have done : and if any other do take either profit or pleasure hereby , they have cause to thank Mr. Robert Sackville , for whom especially this my Schoolmaster was provided . And ...
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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.