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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15. oldal
... removed by his father to the French court , where his education was carefully completed with the aid of the first masters . At Paris , he was brought up with the young French princes , where he received instruction in the military ...
... removed by his father to the French court , where his education was carefully completed with the aid of the first masters . At Paris , he was brought up with the young French princes , where he received instruction in the military ...
28. oldal
... removed from the sound and useful learning which enables the scholar to discover the truth , and to impart the knowl- edge of it to others . Scotus having dared to controvert some positions of Thomas Aquinas , who was deemed the oracle ...
... removed from the sound and useful learning which enables the scholar to discover the truth , and to impart the knowl- edge of it to others . Scotus having dared to controvert some positions of Thomas Aquinas , who was deemed the oracle ...
37. oldal
... removed to King Richard's palace , carefully watched ; whilst in 1399 he accompanied that monarch in his expedition . * Fuller , in his Church History , informs us that Henry's chamber over the College gate was then inhabited by the ...
... removed to King Richard's palace , carefully watched ; whilst in 1399 he accompanied that monarch in his expedition . * Fuller , in his Church History , informs us that Henry's chamber over the College gate was then inhabited by the ...
55. oldal
... removed into the family of some renowned feudal lord , who initiated him into the mysteries and hardships of a martial and chivalrous career ; there he remained as a page until the age of fourteen , when invested with the first degree ...
... removed into the family of some renowned feudal lord , who initiated him into the mysteries and hardships of a martial and chivalrous career ; there he remained as a page until the age of fourteen , when invested with the first degree ...
62. oldal
... removal into the household of Cardinal Morton ; and his college days at Oxford ; will be found sketched elsewhere in this volume . We here fol- low More into his domestic retirement at Chelsea . • More hath built near London ( says ...
... removal into the household of Cardinal Morton ; and his college days at Oxford ; will be found sketched elsewhere in this volume . We here fol- low More into his domestic retirement at Chelsea . • More hath built near London ( says ...
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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.