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Page 36 - I remember once, in making a piece of Latin, my master found fault with the syntax of one word, which was not so used by me heedlessly, but designedly, and therefore I told him there was a plain grammar rule for it. He angrily replied, there was no such rule. I took the grammar and showed the rule to him. Then he smilingly said, ' Thou art a brave boy ; I had forgot it.
Page 33 - Master Cheever's watchful eye has caught two boys at play. Now we shall see awful times. The two malefactors are summoned before the master's chair, wherein he sits with the terror of a judge upon his brow. Our old chair is now a judgment-seat.
Page 65 - O for such a result, from whatever legislation, in our modern Pedlingtons, great or little ! . 2. All persons were forbidden to associate with the bad. 3. " He made another law, better than these, and neglected by the older legislators. For he enacted that all the sons of the citizens should be instructed in letters, the city paying the salaries of the teachers. For he held that the poor, not being able to pay their teachers from their own property, would be deprived of the most valuable discipline.
Page 40 - He received me with abundance of Affection, taking me by the Hand several times. He said the Afflictions of God's people, God by them did as a Goldsmith, Knock, knock, knock ; knock, knock, Knock, to finish the plate : It was to perfect them not to punish them.
Page 79 - Amyanthus-Paper be All writ with Gold, from all corruption free. A Learned Master of the Languages Which to Rich Stores of Learning are the Keyes : He taught us first Good Sense to understand And put the Golden Keyes into our Hand, We but for him had been for Learning Dumb, And had a sort of Turkish Mutes become.
Page 48 - Next to the Corps to make th' attendance even, Jove, Mercury, Apollo came from heaven. And Virgil, Cato, gods, men, Rivers, Winds, With Elegies, Tears, Sighs, came in their kinds. Ovid from Pontus hast's Apparrell'd thus, In Exile-weeds bringing De Tristibus: And Homer sure had been among the Rout, But that the Stories say his Eyes were out. Queens, Cities Countries, Islands, Come All Trees, Birds, Fishes, and each Word in Urn. What Syntax here can you expect to find? Where each one bears such discomposed...
Page 40 - Aug. 12, 1708. — Mr. Chiever is abroad and hears Mr. Cotton Mather preach. This is the last of his going abroad. Was taken very sick, like to die with a Flux. Aug. 13. — I go to see him, went in with his son Thomas and Mr. Lewis. His Son spake to him and he knew him not ; I spake to him and he bid me speak again ; then he said, Now I know you, and speaking cheerily mentioned my name. I ask'd his Blessing for me and my family ; He said I was Bless'd, and it could not be Reversed. Yet at my going...
Page 46 - OR, | An ELEGY composed upon the Death of Mr. John Woodmancy, \ formerly a School-Master in Boston : But now Published upon | the DEATH of the Venerable | Mr. Ezekiel Chevers, | the late and famous School-Master of Boston in New-England; Who Departed this Life the | Twenty-first of August 1708. Early in the Morning. In the Ninety-fourth Year of his Age. This sheet, signed'
Page 78 - A mighty Tribe of Well-instructed Youth Tell what they owe to him, and Tell with Truth, All the Eight parts of Speech he taught to them They now Employ to Trumpet his Esteem. They fill Fames Trumpet, and they spread a Fame To last till the Last Trumpet drown the same.
Page 60 - Hooker's reason; declaring that, "though he had been acquainted with many scholars of divers na'tions, yet he never met with Mr. Hooker's equal, either for preaching or for disputing." And such was the regard which, on the other side, he had for Dr. Ames, that he would say, " If a scholar was but well studied in Dr. Ames his Medulla...