The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose. volume Iii (Of X) - Great Britain And Ireland I
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose. volume Iii (Of X) - Great Britain And Ireland I
Halsey Francis Whiting
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Many a schoolmasterbetter answereth the name _paidotribes_ than _paidagogos_, rathertearing his scholars' flesh with whipping than giving them goodeducation. No wonder if his scholars hate the Muses, being presentedunto them in the shapes of fiends and furies. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 87: From "The Holy and Profane State. "] [Footnote 88: Cooper's "Latin Dictionary" was first published in 1565and was long a standard school-book in England. It received thespecial patronage of Queen Elizabeth. Cooper... was made Bishop ofWinchester in 1584. ] JEREMY TAYLOR Baptized in 1618, died in 1667; son of a barber; educated at Cambridge; chaplain to Charles I during the Civil War; after the Restoration made Bishop of Down and Connor, and a member of the Irish Privy Council; his "Holy Living" published in 1650, and "Holy Dying" in 1651. THE BENEFITS OF ADVERSITY[89] No man is more miserable than he that hath no adversity--that man isnot tried whether he be good or bad: and God never crowns thosevirtues which are only faculties and dispositions; but every act ofvirtue is an ingredient into reward.
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