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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7. oldal
... whole by the aid of the steam - engine ; and a medal ( believed to be the only one ever struck in honor of Alfred ) was struck for this ' Anglo - Saxon Jubilee . " The commemoration took a more permanent form in the fol- lowing year ...
... whole by the aid of the steam - engine ; and a medal ( believed to be the only one ever struck in honor of Alfred ) was struck for this ' Anglo - Saxon Jubilee . " The commemoration took a more permanent form in the fol- lowing year ...
8. oldal
... whole revenue . Hither even some noblemen repaired who had far outgrown their youth , but scarcely or not at all begun their acquaintance with books . This school was attended not only by the sons of almost all the nobility of the realm ...
... whole revenue . Hither even some noblemen repaired who had far outgrown their youth , but scarcely or not at all begun their acquaintance with books . This school was attended not only by the sons of almost all the nobility of the realm ...
12. oldal
... whole kingdom ; but a stock of words could only be acquired from a teacher , and by memory . The studies of this period must have been greatly impeded by the scarcity and high price of books ; although their multiplica- tion went on ...
... whole kingdom ; but a stock of words could only be acquired from a teacher , and by memory . The studies of this period must have been greatly impeded by the scarcity and high price of books ; although their multiplica- tion went on ...
27. oldal
... whole world be possessed by the causes of error , let us freely bear opinions contrary to established usage . The Opus Majus begins with a book on the necessity of ad- vancing knowledge , and a dissertation on the use of philosophy in ...
... whole world be possessed by the causes of error , let us freely bear opinions contrary to established usage . The Opus Majus begins with a book on the necessity of ad- vancing knowledge , and a dissertation on the use of philosophy in ...
28. oldal
... whole Life , not only kind to the Muses , but much befriended by them , as appears by those Learned Writings of which_Pilsons says he was the Author . When he was capable of receiving more in- genious Education , a Man of Great Reading ...
... whole Life , not only kind to the Muses , but much befriended by them , as appears by those Learned Writings of which_Pilsons says he was the Author . When he was capable of receiving more in- genious Education , a Man of Great Reading ...
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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.