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" I wis, than three years' travel abroad spent in Italy. And I marvel this book is no more read in the court than it is, seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman, Sir Thomas Hoby, who was many ways well furnished with learning... "
The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth - Page 231
by Roger Ascham - 1815 - 391 pages
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Congressional Serial Set

United States - 1904 - 1342 pages
...Court, than it is, seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman Sir Th. Hobbie, who was many ways well furnished with learning, and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues. The following is given as the Final end of a courtier. Is to become an instructor and teacher of his...
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Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of ..., Volume 1

United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1905 - 1356 pages
...Court, than it is. seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman Sir Th. Hobbie, who was many ways well furnished with learning, and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues. The following is given as the Final etui of a courtier. Is-to become an instructor and teacher of his...
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Report of the Commissioner of Education, Volume 1

United States. Office of Education - Education - 1905 - 1340 pages
...seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman Sir Th. Hobbie, who was many waya well furnished with learning, and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues. The following is given as the Final end of a courtier. Is to become an instructor and teacher of his...
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The Schoolmaster

Roger Ascham - Latin language - 1909 - 206 pages
...than it is, seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman, Sir Thomas Hobble, who was many ways well furnished with learning, and...gentlemen to follow. And surely one example is more available, both to good and ill, than twenty precepts written in books ; and so Plato, not in one or...
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Some Authors: A Collection of Literary Essays 1896-1916

Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1923 - 352 pages
...books of Italy ', is highly discerning. ' To join learning with comely exercises,' he says, ' Conte Baldesar Castiglione, in his book Cortegiane, doth...and very expert in knowledge of divers ' tongues.' 1 Ascham forgot that Hoby himself had spent more than three years abroad in the gaining of these divers...
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Elizabethan Verse and Prose (non-dramatic)

George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman, Sir Thomas Hoby, who was many ways furnished with learning, and very expert in knowledge...good and ill, than twenty precepts written in books; and so Plato, not in one or two, but divers places, doth plainly teach. If King Edward had lived a...
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A Cyclopedia of Education, Volume 3

Paul Monroe - Education - 1912 - 738 pages
...1577, 1588, 1603. Of Hoby, Ascham (qv) says in the Scholemaster (Arber's reprint, p. 66) that he " was many ways well furnished with learning, and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues." See CASTIGLÏONE, BALDASSAKE. Reference : — RALEIOH, W. Sir Thomas Hoby's Courtier, in Tudor Translations....
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The Fortunes of the Courtier: The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano

Peter Burke - Philosophy - 1996 - 234 pages
...court than it is, seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman Sir Thomas Hobbie, who was many ways well furnished with learning, and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues. Ascham made his own the recommendation that 'a courtly gentleman' ought to be able to ride, dance,...
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The Book of the Courtier

Baldassare Castiglione - History - 2003 - 500 pages
...than it is, seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman, Sir Thomas Hobbie, who was many ways well furnished with learning, and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues." Of the first German translator, LORENz KRATzER, little more is known than that he was an officer of...
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Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice

Massimiliano Morini - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 176 pages
...but praise for the English version, 'so well translated [...] by a worthy gentleman, Sir Thomas Hoby, who was many ways well furnished with learning and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues' (Ascham, 1967, p.55). Ascham was by no means isolated in his admiration of Castiglione's dialogic treatise:...
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