The Scholemaster. Written Between 1563-8. Posthumously Published |
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... The Courtier , 1561 . To his louing frind Mayster Thomas Hoby . For your opinion of my gud will vnto you as you wriit , you cannot be deceiued : for submit- ting your doinges to mi iudgement , I thanke you INTRODUCTION . 13.
... The Courtier , 1561 . To his louing frind Mayster Thomas Hoby . For your opinion of my gud will vnto you as you wriit , you cannot be deceiued : for submit- ting your doinges to mi iudgement , I thanke you INTRODUCTION . 13.
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... vnto me boath for the roundnes of your saienges and welspeakinges of the saam , but in changing certein wordes which might verie well be let aloan , but that I am verie curious in mi freendes matters , not to determijn , but to debaat ...
... vnto me boath for the roundnes of your saienges and welspeakinges of the saam , but in changing certein wordes which might verie well be let aloan , but that I am verie curious in mi freendes matters , not to determijn , but to debaat ...
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... vnto me , for his manifolde great gifts and wonderfull vertues : so did I thinke of his most gentle nature and godly disposed minde , to helpe all those with his knowledge and vnderstanding , that any waye made meanes vnto him , and ...
... vnto me , for his manifolde great gifts and wonderfull vertues : so did I thinke of his most gentle nature and godly disposed minde , to helpe all those with his knowledge and vnderstanding , that any waye made meanes vnto him , and ...
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... vnto you , and that you also , as well as I , haue hearde Sir Iohn Cheeke read the same Ora- tions at other times : yet I thinke for diuers causes I shoulde in right present vnto your honour this my traueyle the rather to haue it ...
... vnto you , and that you also , as well as I , haue hearde Sir Iohn Cheeke read the same Ora- tions at other times : yet I thinke for diuers causes I shoulde in right present vnto your honour this my traueyle the rather to haue it ...
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... vnto you . For well remembryng how much all good learnyng oweth vnto you for defense thereof , as the Vniuersitie of Cambrige , of which my said late husband was a member , haue in chosing you their worthy Chaun- celler acknowledged ...
... vnto you . For well remembryng how much all good learnyng oweth vnto you for defense thereof , as the Vniuersitie of Cambrige , of which my said late husband was a member , haue in chosing you their worthy Chaun- celler acknowledged ...
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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...