...once, in making a piece of Latin, my master found fault with the syntax of one word, which was not used by me heedlessly, but designedly, and therefore...old." President Stiles of Yale College, in his Diary, says that he had seen a man who said that he "well knew a famous grammar-school master, Mr. E. Cheever,...

...was a plain grammar rule for it. He angrily replied there was no such rule. I took the grammar und showed the rule to him. Then he smilingly said, "Thou...no wonder for he was then above eighty years old. The "grammar" of which Barnarc speaks was "The Accidence" с Cheever's own composition, publis! ed...

...to school. We get another glimpse of the master, too good to be lost, in this same autobiography. " I remember once, in making a piece of Latin, my master...And no wonder; for he was then above eighty years old."1 Late in the eighteenth century, President Stiles of Yale College gathered up some fragments...

...swallow ; and he would express himself continually with a boiling Zeal concerning it." Magnolia, p. 180. smilingly said, 'Thou art a brave boy; I had forgot...wonder ; for he was then above eighty years old." 1 Late in the eighteenth century, President Stiles of Yale College gathered up some fragments of information...

...which is very brief, and gives a charming picture of the little boy and the veteran schoolmaster: — I remember once, in making a piece of Latin, my master...no wonder; for he was then above eighty years old. 3 Mr. Cheever was master of the Boston Latin School for nearly forty years. He died in 1708, at the...

...which is very brief, and gives a charming picture of the little boy and the veteran schoolmaster : — I remember once, in making a piece of Latin, my master...And no wonder ; for he was then above eighty years old.2 Mr. Cheever was master of the Boston Latin School for nearly forty years. He died in 1708, at...

...of Marblehead was a pupil of his old age in the Boston Latin School. I "remember once," he said, ' 'in making a piece of Latin, my master found fault...and no wonder, for he was then above eighty years old."1 "When Scholars had so far profited at the Grammar Schools, that they could Read any Classical...

...designedly, and therefore I told him there was a plain grammar rule for it. He angrily replied, 'There is no such rule.' I took the grammar and showed the rule...no wonder, for he was then above eighty years old." 8 ° Cheever's Latin Accidence was written in New Haven. The last edition was printed in 1838. American...

...designedly, and therefore I told him there was a plain grammar rule for it. He angrily replied, ' There is no such rule.' I took the grammar and showed the rule...no wonder, for he was then above eighty years old." 1 i Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. V, p. 180. CHAPTER VI GOVERNMENT...

...poetical genius till after I had been at college some time, when upon reading some of Mr. Cowley's work, I was highly pleased, and a new scene opened before...no wonder, for he was then above eighty years old. While I was a schoolboy, I experienced many signal deliverances from imminent danger, on the land,...