The Scholemaster. Written Between 1563-8. Posthumously Published |
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... Hard Wits , 4. The ill choosing of scholars to go to the Universities , 5. Plato's seven plain notes to choose a good wit in a child for learning , • 6. Obj . Some men laugh at us , when we thus wish and reason that young children ...
... Hard Wits , 4. The ill choosing of scholars to go to the Universities , 5. Plato's seven plain notes to choose a good wit in a child for learning , • 6. Obj . Some men laugh at us , when we thus wish and reason that young children ...
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... hard thing it is to bring matter out of any one language into another . And perhaps it may be that euen those who take themselues to bee much better learned than I am ( as what is he that is not , hauing any name for learning at all ...
... hard thing it is to bring matter out of any one language into another . And perhaps it may be that euen those who take themselues to bee much better learned than I am ( as what is he that is not , hauing any name for learning at all ...
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... hard fare , that can haue no better . " ] - 7. We have noticed a few of the influences on Ascham in his earlier life : in order to under- stand his outlook on the Literature of his day ; while as he was growing from 48 to 53 years of ...
... hard fare , that can haue no better . " ] - 7. We have noticed a few of the influences on Ascham in his earlier life : in order to under- stand his outlook on the Literature of his day ; while as he was growing from 48 to 53 years of ...
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... hard wittes : of the right choice of a good witte of Feare , and loue in teach- inge children . We passed from children and came to yonge men , namely , Ientlemen : we taulked of their to moch libertie , to liue as they lust : of their ...
... hard wittes : of the right choice of a good witte of Feare , and loue in teach- inge children . We passed from children and came to yonge men , namely , Ientlemen : we taulked of their to moch libertie , to liue as they lust : of their ...
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... hard for the Scholer , colde and vncomfortable for them bothe . Let your Scholer be neuer afraide , to aske you any dou [ b ] t , but vse discretlie the best allurements ye can , to encorage him to the same : lest , his ouermoch hear ...
... hard for the Scholer , colde and vncomfortable for them bothe . Let your Scholer be neuer afraide , to aske you any dou [ b ] t , but vse discretlie the best allurements ye can , to encorage him to the same : lest , his ouermoch hear ...
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Page 165 - king Lote, that was his own aunte. This is good stuffe for wise men to laughe at, or honest men to take pleasure at. Yet I know when Gods Bible was banished the Court, and Morte Arthure receiued into the Princes chamber.
Page 101 - 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...
Page 101 - I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 214 - I do wish,"' he afterwards remarks, in reference to the common books of exercises used at schools, '* that all rules for young scholars were shorter than they be. For without doubt, Grammatica itself is sooner and surer learned by examples of good authors than by the naked rules of grammarians.
Page 14 - ... payeng, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt. For then doth our tung naturallie and praisablie...
Page 233 - Tullie togither, to teach plainlie withall, after this sort. 1. Tullie reteyneth thus moch of the matter, thies sentences, thies wordes : 2. This and that he leaueth out, which he doth wittelie to this end and purpose. 3. This he addeth here. 4. This he diminisheth there. 5. This he ordereth thus, with placing that here, not there. 6. This he altereth and changeth, either, in propertie of wordes, in forme of sentence, in substance of the matter, or in one, or other conuenient circumstance of the...
Page 102 - 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. 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 62 - But if the child miss, either in forgetting a word, or in changing a good with a worse, or misordering the sentence, I would not have the master either frown or chide with him, if the child have done his diligence, and used no truantship therein.
Page 228 - Ye know not what hurt ye do to learning that care not for words, but for matter, and so make a divorce betwixt the tongue and the heart.
Page 62 - After this, the childe must take a paper booke, and sitting in some place, where no man shall prompe him, by him self, let him translate into Englishe his former lesson. Then shewing it to his master, let the master take from him his latin booke, and pausing an houre, at the least, than let the childe translate his owne Englishe into latin againe, in an other paper booke. When the childe bringeth it, turned into latin, the master must compare it with Tullies booke, and laie them both togither...