 | Charles Henry Hartshorne - Rare books - 1829 - 590 pages
...St. John's, and was a pupil of his correspondent's. " I marvel," says Ascham in his Schoolmaster, " this book is no more read in the court than it is,...learning, and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues." See also Ascham's Epist. 1. iii. p. 142. The valuable manuscript library of the Earl of Guilford contains... | |
 | Charles Henry Hartshorne - Libraries - 1829 - 594 pages
...St. John's, and was a pupil of his correspondent's. " I marvel," says Ascham in his Schoolmaster, " this book is no more read in the court than it is,...learning, and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues." See also Ascham s Epist. 1. iii. p. 142. The valuable manuscript library of the Earl of Guilford contains... | |
 | Roger Ascham, Giles Ascham - 1864 - 388 pages
...trimly teach ; which book advisedly ™okifor'anienread and diligently followed but one year iiemau. at home in England, would do a young gentleman more...learning, and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues. * This book was soon after (and perhaps the sooner for this great character here given it) translated... | |
 | Roger Ascham, Giles Ascham - 1864 - 398 pages
...gn by Mr. Clerke, f*U^s this title, 1buUluuxiciu CuifeUwue C«s<*v <t<. CW-n<//. <-...- /. c./cAnd beside good precepts in books, in all kind of tongues,...young gentlemen to follow: and surely one example Examples better i 8 more valuable, both to good and ill, than precepts. than t wen ty precepts written... | |
 | Education - 1873 - 662 pages
...the last talk that I ever had, and the last time that I ever saw that noble >md worthy lady. ******* Surely one example is more valuable, both to good and ill, than twenty precepts written in books ; and so Plato, not in one or two, but in divers places, doth plainly teach. ******* learning and knowledge... | |
 | Robert Hoe, Oscar Albert Bierstadt - Bibliography - 1895 - 390 pages
..."Courtier" was first done into English by Sir Thomas Hoby, who, as Roger Ascham states, "was many wayes well furnished with learning, and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues." In this library is the first edition, a black-letter quarto of 1561, and with it stands the edition... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - English language - 1896 - 252 pages
...practice must run along the line of examples rather than of precepts. Roger Ascham said very aptly : " And surely one example is more valuable, both to good and ill, than twenty precepts written in books. And so Plato, not in one or two, but in divers places doth plainly teach." Quintilian declares that... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 478 pages
...than it is, seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman, Sir Thomas Hobbie, who was many ways well furnished with learning, and...gentlemen to follow. And surely one example is more available, both to good and ill, than twenty precepts written in books; and so Plato, not in one or... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 474 pages
...than it is, seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman, Sir Thomas Hobbie, who was many ways well furnished with learning, and...gentlemen to follow. And surely one example is more available, both to good and ill, than twenty precepts written in books; and so Plato, not in one or... | |
 | conte Baldassarre Castiglione - Courtesy - 1903 - 526 pages
...than it is, seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman, Sir Thomas Hobbie, who was many ways well furnished with learning, and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues."1.,1 ^ Of the first German translator, LORENZ KRATZER, little more is known than that he was... | |
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I wis, than three years' travel abroad spent in Italy. And I marvel this book is no more read in the court than it is, seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman, Sir Thomas Hoby, who was many ways well furnished with learning... 
