The schoolmaster: essays on practical education, selected from the works of Ascham [and others], from the Quarterly journal of education, and from lecturesCharles Knight, 1836 |
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... understand , nor will follow this good coun- sel of Socrates ; but wise riders in their office can , and will , do both ; which is the only cause that commonly the young gentlemen of England go so unwillingly to school , and run so fast ...
... understand , nor will follow this good coun- sel of Socrates ; but wise riders in their office can , and will , do both ; which is the only cause that commonly the young gentlemen of England go so unwillingly to school , and run so fast ...
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... understand , speak , and write both wittily with head and fair with hand , as scarce one or two rare wits in both the Universities have in many years reached unto . Amongst all the benefits that God hath blessed me withal , next the ...
... understand , speak , and write both wittily with head and fair with hand , as scarce one or two rare wits in both the Universities have in many years reached unto . Amongst all the benefits that God hath blessed me withal , next the ...
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... understanding , and in the memory for sure keeping of all that is learned . " Having then examined at considerable length the opinions of Cicero , Quintilian , and others of the ancients upon the subject , he thus concludes : — " And by ...
... understanding , and in the memory for sure keeping of all that is learned . " Having then examined at considerable length the opinions of Cicero , Quintilian , and others of the ancients upon the subject , he thus concludes : — " And by ...
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... understanding in both the tongues , and to such a ready utterance of the Latin , and that with a judgment , as they be few in number in both the Universities , or elsewhere in England , that be in both tongues comparable with her ...
... understanding in both the tongues , and to such a ready utterance of the Latin , and that with a judgment , as they be few in number in both the Universities , or elsewhere in England , that be in both tongues comparable with her ...
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... understand when he hath been a good while in the University ; to which time and place I chiefly remit this kind of exercise . " To this he subjoins a passage out of Hesiod , which has been imitated by Sophocles , St. Basil , Cicero ...
... understand when he hath been a good while in the University ; to which time and place I chiefly remit this kind of exercise . " To this he subjoins a passage out of Hesiod , which has been imitated by Sophocles , St. Basil , Cicero ...
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Seite 110 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Seite 118 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed...
Seite 111 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Seite 40 - 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.
Seite 109 - ... that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies ' given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Seite 110 - ... and tyrannous aphorisms, appear to them the highest points of wisdom; instilling their barren hearts with a conscientious slavery, if, as I rather think, it be not feigned. Others, lastly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves, knowing no better, to the enjoyments of ease and luxury, living out their days in feast and jollity; which, indeed, is the wisest and the safest course of all these, unless they were with more integrity undertaken.
Seite 117 - ... that sublime art which in Aristotle's poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro,18 Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Seite 182 - of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world...
Seite 104 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Seite 40 - 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 anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world...