A Book of Earnest LivesSwan, Sonnenschein, 1894 - 403 pages |
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... learning to pass a competitive examination , or to fit a youth for entering one of the great pro- fessions , or , in the humbler walks of life , for a stool in a mer- chant's counting - house , or a post behind a tradesman's counter ...
... learning to pass a competitive examination , or to fit a youth for entering one of the great pro- fessions , or , in the humbler walks of life , for a stool in a mer- chant's counting - house , or a post behind a tradesman's counter ...
Page 14
... learning , until they are called upon to choose their future career . Then , some by the influence of friends , take to " an ambitious and mercenary , or ignorantly zealous , divinity . " Some are allured to the trade of law ...
... learning , until they are called upon to choose their future career . Then , some by the influence of friends , take to " an ambitious and mercenary , or ignorantly zealous , divinity . " Some are allured to the trade of law ...
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... learning . His example was happily followed by many imitators , and a system of middle - class education was organised , which , by the end of the 16th century , " had changed the very face of England . " A letter addressed to Thomas ...
... learning . His example was happily followed by many imitators , and a system of middle - class education was organised , which , by the end of the 16th century , " had changed the very face of England . " A letter addressed to Thomas ...
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... learning French , eytmology , casting of accounts , playing at weapons , and other similar exercises . John Colet was the eldest son of Sir Henry Colet , twice Lord Mayor of London , and was born in 1466. After completing his education ...
... learning French , eytmology , casting of accounts , playing at weapons , and other similar exercises . John Colet was the eldest son of Sir Henry Colet , twice Lord Mayor of London , and was born in 1466. After completing his education ...
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... learning in his house , amongst whom I myself was one , for whom at these times he would bring down from London both bow and shafts . And when they should play he would go with them himself into the field , see them shoot , and he that ...
... learning in his house , amongst whom I myself was one , for whom at these times he would bring down from London both bow and shafts . And when they should play he would go with them himself into the field , see them shoot , and he that ...
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Page 156 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 66 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 92 - Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 391 - I must hence to work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh when no man can work.
Page 395 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care...
Page 291 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 164 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 106 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 22 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 291 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient...