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... turn.3 Henry VIII was a highly educated youth , whose suc- cession to the throne was hailed by Erasmus as ushering in a millennium of letters for England . In fact , it followed closely upon the coming of a better scholarship to Oxford ...
... turn.3 Henry VIII was a highly educated youth , whose suc- cession to the throne was hailed by Erasmus as ushering in a millennium of letters for England . In fact , it followed closely upon the coming of a better scholarship to Oxford ...
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... turning potency perhaps to strident fact . Nature had endowed him with many talents , and circum- stance favored their development . Having passed a part of his boyhood in the household of Cardinal Morton , one of Henry VII's ablest and ...
... turning potency perhaps to strident fact . Nature had endowed him with many talents , and circum- stance favored their development . Having passed a part of his boyhood in the household of Cardinal Morton , one of Henry VII's ablest and ...
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... turn to earlier and lighter phases of his personality . More was a man of wit and imagination , with the tastes and aptitudes of a scholar . He learned his Greek from Grocyn and Linacre , and doubtless later through collaboration with ...
... turn to earlier and lighter phases of his personality . More was a man of wit and imagination , with the tastes and aptitudes of a scholar . He learned his Greek from Grocyn and Linacre , and doubtless later through collaboration with ...
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... and commercial law of Rome . " From the law and from Sir Thomas More who suffered F. W. Maitland , English Law and the Renaissance . ( Cambridge , death in 1535 , we turn to two younger men 1901. ) ENGLISH EDUCATION 15.
... and commercial law of Rome . " From the law and from Sir Thomas More who suffered F. W. Maitland , English Law and the Renaissance . ( Cambridge , death in 1535 , we turn to two younger men 1901. ) ENGLISH EDUCATION 15.
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Henry Osborn Taylor. death in 1535 , we turn to two younger men , scholars as well as educators , who will serve to illustrate the lack of epoch - making qualities in English scholarship . One was Sir Thomas Elyot , an official in the ...
Henry Osborn Taylor. death in 1535 , we turn to two younger men , scholars as well as educators , who will serve to illustrate the lack of epoch - making qualities in English scholarship . One was Sir Thomas Elyot , an official in the ...
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Page 255 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
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