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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ... - Page 27
by Francis Bacon - 1826
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Shakespeare and Language

Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2004 - 310 pages
...study words and not marter'. 'Then did Car of Cambtidge and Ascham with their lectures and wtitings almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure all...were studious unto that delicate and polished kind of learning.'1' Different values are at issue here: the elaborate versus the clear, the delicate versus...
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Shakespeare's Late Style

Russ McDonald - 2006 - 173 pages
...Cicero the primary error of modern education, "for men began to hunt more after words than matter." "Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham with their...Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were studious, 30 The historical background is found in Morris W. Croll, Style, Rhetoric, and Rhythm, ed. J. Max Patrick,...
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An Introduction to Early Modern English

Terttu Nevalainen - 2006 - 194 pages
...infinite, and curious paines vpon Cicero the Orator, and Hermogenes the Rhetorican, besides his owne Bookes of Periods, and imitation, and the like: Then did...and Ascham with their Lectures and Writings, almost diefie Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure, all young men that were studious vnto that delicate and...
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Bacon Selections

Francis Bacon - 1928 - 500 pages
...grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero...did Erasmus take occasion to make the scoffing echo; Decent annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone, [I have spent ten years in reading Cicero:] and the echo...
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Lectures on the History of the Nineteenth Century, Delivered at the ...

Frederick Alexander Kirkpatrick - 1904 - 726 pages
...grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero...Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of the Periods, and Imitation, and the like. Then did Carr of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures...
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Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700

John William Adamson - 1905 - 320 pages
...grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero...Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of the Periods, and Imitation, and the like. Then did Carr of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures...
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Classical Education in Britain, 1500-1900

Martin Lowther Clarke - 1959 - 254 pages
...lectures; according to Francis Bacon, he and Ascham almost deified Cicero and Demosthenes, and allured ' all young men that were studious unto that delicate and polished kind of learning'.5 In 1550, when Ascham returned to Cambridge after tutoring the princess Elizabeth, he reported...
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