Lives of Northern Worthies: Lady Anne Clifford. Roger Ascham. John Fisher. The Rev. William Mason. Sir Richard ArkwrightE. Moxon, 1852 - Lancashire (England) |
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... Greek and Latin tongues , and adorned with knowledge by the reading of Cicero , it so fell out , that John Cheke and Thomas Smith , ( being at that time young men , but afterwards knights , ) were stirred up with a kind of emulation of ...
... Greek and Latin tongues , and adorned with knowledge by the reading of Cicero , it so fell out , that John Cheke and Thomas Smith , ( being at that time young men , but afterwards knights , ) were stirred up with a kind of emulation of ...
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... Greek , having translated three orations from Demosthenes , & c . , 1540 , 4to . In fact , as an assistant of Sir Francis Walsingham , one would be glad to know a great deal more of the life of this eminent man , and especially to get ...
... Greek , having translated three orations from Demosthenes , & c . , 1540 , 4to . In fact , as an assistant of Sir Francis Walsingham , one would be glad to know a great deal more of the life of this eminent man , and especially to get ...
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... Greek , and Pro- fessor of Civil Law . Under Edward VI . , or rather under the Protector Somerset , he was one of the principal Secretaries of State , Sir William Cecil , afterwards Lord Burleigh , being the other . At this time also he ...
... Greek , and Pro- fessor of Civil Law . Under Edward VI . , or rather under the Protector Somerset , he was one of the principal Secretaries of State , Sir William Cecil , afterwards Lord Burleigh , being the other . At this time also he ...
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... Greek and Latin books he bequeathed to Queen's College , Cambridge , as well as a large globe of his own construction , and founded two exhibitions for natives of Saffron Walden . He is the author of several historical and political ...
... Greek and Latin books he bequeathed to Queen's College , Cambridge , as well as a large globe of his own construction , and founded two exhibitions for natives of Saffron Walden . He is the author of several historical and political ...
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... Greek language was at that time new in western Europe , and in England a mere novelty . To Ascham it was as new delight : " every lesson which VOL . II . 66 the trouble of a he gained he was H ... Greek , he wrote Greek ROGER ASCHAM . 97.
... Greek language was at that time new in western Europe , and in England a mere novelty . To Ascham it was as new delight : " every lesson which VOL . II . 66 the trouble of a he gained he was H ... Greek , he wrote Greek ROGER ASCHAM . 97.
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Page 119 - ... else ; 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 mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 48 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Page 49 - Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws...
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 36 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 342 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve...
Page 384 - Which by the thinking Mind have been compelled To serve the Will of feeble-bodied Man. For with the sense of admiration blends The animating hope that time may come When strengthened, yet not dazzled, by the might Of this dominion over Nature gained, Men of all lands shall exercise the same In due proportion to their Country's need; Learning, though late, that all true glory rests, All praise, all safety, and all happiness, Upon the Moral law.
Page 75 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Page 80 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page 114 - Amongst all the benefits that God hath blessed me withal, next the knowledge of Christ's true religion, I count this the greatest, that it pleased God to call me to be one poor minister in setting forward these excellent gifts of learning...