The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the Works of Ascham, Milton, Locke, and Butler; from the Quarterly Journal of Education; and from Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Education |
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... Italy . In 1552 , while residing at the Court of the Emperor , he wrote a small tract , which was afterwards published , under the title of " A Report and Discourse of the Affairs and State of Germany , " in the form of a letter to Mr ...
... Italy . In 1552 , while residing at the Court of the Emperor , he wrote a small tract , which was afterwards published , under the title of " A Report and Discourse of the Affairs and State of Germany , " in the form of a letter to Mr ...
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... Italian I am meet well ; but surely I drink Dutch better than I speak Dutch . ( He means German . ) Tell Mr. D. Maden , I will drink with him now a carouse of wine ; and would to God he had a vessel of Rhenish wine , on condition that I ...
... Italian I am meet well ; but surely I drink Dutch better than I speak Dutch . ( He means German . ) Tell Mr. D. Maden , I will drink with him now a carouse of wine ; and would to God he had a vessel of Rhenish wine , on condition that I ...
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... Italian , and Latin itself , Spanish , French , Dutch [ German is meant ] , and English , bring forth their learning and recite their authors , Cicero only excepted , and one or two more in Latin , they be all patched clouts and rags in ...
... Italian , and Latin itself , Spanish , French , Dutch [ German is meant ] , and English , bring forth their learning and recite their authors , Cicero only excepted , and one or two more in Latin , they be all patched clouts and rags in ...
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... Italy . " " But the English court , " he adds , " has never lacked many fine examples for young gentlemen to follow . " Among these he mentions the late King Edward , " and in the second degree , two noble prim - roses of nobility , the ...
... Italy . " " But the English court , " he adds , " has never lacked many fine examples for young gentlemen to follow . " Among these he mentions the late King Edward , " and in the second degree , two noble prim - roses of nobility , the ...
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... Italian , French , and Spanish , she readeth here now at Windsor more Greek every day than some prebendary of this church doth read Latin in a whole week . And that which is most praiseworthy of all , within the walls of her privy ...
... Italian , French , and Spanish , she readeth here now at Windsor more Greek every day than some prebendary of this church doth read Latin in a whole week . And that which is most praiseworthy of all , within the walls of her privy ...
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Page 182 - ... bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 40 - I wis 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 41 - ... weeping because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. 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 troubles unto me.
Page 117 - ... that sublime art which in Aristotle's poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro,18 Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 110 - ... now on the sudden transported under another climate, to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy, do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of learning, mocked and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements, while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge...
Page 116 - Logic, therefore, so much as is useful, is to be referred to this due place, with all her well-couched heads and topics, until it be time to open her contracted palm into a graceful and ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato, Aristotle, Phalereus, Cicero, Hermogenes, Longinus.
Page 121 - HSrtlib, you have a general view in writing, as your desire was, of that which at several times I had discoursed with you concerning the best and noblest way of education ; not beginning, as some have done, from the cradle, which yet might be worth many considerations, if brevity had not been my scope.
Page 126 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this: That a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Page 108 - The end then of learning is, to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright...
Page 109 - I deem it to be an old error of Universities not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages, that instead of beginning with arts most easy, and those be such as are most obvious to the sense, they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics...