The School Master: Essays on Practical Education, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Education |
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... religious as he was , Ascham was no ascetic , but seems to have had a keen zest for the pleasures of society . In a curious epistle written from Germany , to his friend Raven , one of the fellows of St. John's , he says : " For ...
... religious as he was , Ascham was no ascetic , but seems to have had a keen zest for the pleasures of society . In a curious epistle written from Germany , to his friend Raven , one of the fellows of St. John's , he says : " For ...
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... , he has had earnest re- spect to three special points - truth of religion , honesty * For whatsoever I have I have through thee , and through none other of living men . of living , and right order in learning . " SCHOOLMASTER . 19.
... , he has had earnest re- spect to three special points - truth of religion , honesty * For whatsoever I have I have through thee , and through none other of living men . of living , and right order in learning . " SCHOOLMASTER . 19.
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... religion , I count this the greatest , that it pleased God to call me to be one poor minister in setting forward these excellent gifts of learning in this most excellent Prince ; whose only example , if the rest of our nobility would ...
... religion , I count this the greatest , that it pleased God to call me to be one poor minister in setting forward these excellent gifts of learning in this most excellent Prince ; whose only example , if the rest of our nobility would ...
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... religion set no sure footing where the Pope hath any jurisdiction . " Having apologized for this digression , Ascham con- cludes his first book as follows : " But to my matter ; as I began plainly and simply with my young scholar , so ...
... religion set no sure footing where the Pope hath any jurisdiction . " Having apologized for this digression , Ascham con- cludes his first book as follows : " But to my matter ; as I began plainly and simply with my young scholar , so ...
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... religion or any sect of philosophy , whosoever be found fond in judgment of matter , be commonly found as rude in uttering their minds . For stoics , ana baptists , and friars , with epicures , libertines , and monks , being most like ...
... religion or any sect of philosophy , whosoever be found fond in judgment of matter , be commonly found as rude in uttering their minds . For stoics , ana baptists , and friars , with epicures , libertines , and monks , being most like ...
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Page 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 ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels, and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 117 - These are the studies wherein our noble and our gentle youth ought to bestow their time in a disciplinary way from twelve to one and twenty, unless they rely more upon their ancestors dead, than upon themselves living. In which methodical course, it is so supposed they must proceed by the steady pace of learning onward, as at convenient times for memory's sake to retire back into the middle ward, and sometimes into the rear of what they have been taught, until they have confirmed and solidly united...
Page 120 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 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.
Page 116 - Logic, therefore, so much as is useful, is to be referred to this due place, with all her well-couched heads and topics, until it be time to open her contracted palm into a graceful and ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato, Aristotle, Phalereus*, Cicero, Hermogenes, Longinus.
Page 117 - ... that sublime art which in Aristotle's poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro, (") 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.
Page 121 - I could have mentioned, but this, to such as have the worth in them to make trial, for light and direction may be enough. Only I believe that this is not a bow for every man to shoot in, that counts himself a teacher ; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave Ulysses ; yet I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay...
Page 40 - 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...
Page 110 - ... now on the sudden transported under another climate, to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy, do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of learning, mocked and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements, while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge...
Page 186 - For a wise man, he seemed to me at that time, to be governed too much by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and, I hope, without offence. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most indulgent to our unhappy species, and surely a little too general, led him into measures...