School-days of Eminent Men: I. Sketches of the Progress of Education in England, from the Reign of King Alfred to that of Queen Victoria. II. Early Lives of Celebrated British Authors, Philosophers and Poets, Inventors and Discoverers, Divines, Heroes, Statesmen and LegislatorsFollett, Foster, 1860 - 309 oldal |
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... remarkable as the first upon record who , having laid the foundation of his learning at Westminster , pro- ceeded for its further cultivation to Oxford . He was born of English parents , and a native of the city of London . Whilst a ...
... remarkable as the first upon record who , having laid the foundation of his learning at Westminster , pro- ceeded for its further cultivation to Oxford . He was born of English parents , and a native of the city of London . Whilst a ...
38. oldal
... remarkable . In all probability his uncle superin- tended his general education , intrusting the details to others more competent to instruct him in the various branches of litera- ture . Among his college associates was John Carpenter ...
... remarkable . In all probability his uncle superin- tended his general education , intrusting the details to others more competent to instruct him in the various branches of litera- ture . Among his college associates was John Carpenter ...
45. oldal
... remarkable , the Greek Grammar ; a knowledge of Greek at this period being a rare accomplishment even at our universities . Its study was , however , gaining ground in Elizabeth's reign ; and in a book published in 1586 , it is stated ...
... remarkable , the Greek Grammar ; a knowledge of Greek at this period being a rare accomplishment even at our universities . Its study was , however , gaining ground in Elizabeth's reign ; and in a book published in 1586 , it is stated ...
61. oldal
... remarkable passage in Latimer's " Sermon of the Plow , " preached in 1548 : Why are not the noblemen and young gentlemen of England so brought up in the knowl- edge of God , and in learning , that they may be able to execute offices in ...
... remarkable passage in Latimer's " Sermon of the Plow , " preached in 1548 : Why are not the noblemen and young gentlemen of England so brought up in the knowl- edge of God , and in learning , that they may be able to execute offices in ...
62. oldal
... remarkable period was Sir Thomas More , the records of whose early life and private history throw considerable light upon the state of education in his time . The interesting traits of More's boyhood - his school- days at St. Anthony's ...
... remarkable period was Sir Thomas More , the records of whose early life and private history throw considerable light upon the state of education in his time . The interesting traits of More's boyhood - his school- days at St. Anthony's ...
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Abbey admiration afterward Alfred ancient Anglo-Saxon became Ben Jonson Bishop born boyhood boys brother called Cambridge Castle celebrated century Charles child Christ's Hospital Christchurch church classical College court Duke Earl early Edward Edward IV eminent England English English language Eton Eton College father favorite foundation French George grammar grammar-school Greek Harrow School Henry Henry VI honor instruction John King King's knowledge Lady Lanfranc language Latin learning letters literature London Lord master mind monastery mother noble Oxford period person poem poet poetry poor present Prince pupil Queen recorded reign religious Richard Robert royal Saxon says scholars school-fellows schoolmaster sent Shakspeare Southey taught Thomas Thomas à Becket tion took translated tutor University verses Westminster Westminster School William William of Wykeham Winchester Winchester College Windsor Castle writing written wrote young youth
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187. oldal - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed : Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
187. oldal - WAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run, Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice...
217. oldal - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
192. oldal - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
116. oldal - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
116. oldal - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
173. oldal - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
216. oldal - Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way.
217. oldal - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
173. oldal - Even when I was a very young boy at school, instead of running about on holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them and walk into the fields, either alone with a book, or with some one companion, if I could find any of the same temper.