PositionsText and drawings follow the growth cycle of twelve common flowering trees: pussywillow, white oak, sugar maple, elm, apple, horse chestnut, flowering dogwood, magnolia, witch hazel, black walnut, black locust, and tulip tree. |
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Page 303 - Scholars thereof. lars ; which done, he slept his hour (custom made him critical to proportion it) in his desk in the school ; but woe be to the scholar that slept the while ! Awaking, he heard them accurately ; and Atropos might be persuaded to pity, as soon as he to pardon, where he found just fault. The prayers of cockering mothers prevailed with him as much as the requests of indulgent fathers, rather increasing than mitigating his severity on their offending child.
Page 138 - If that wit fall to preach which were fitter for the plough, and he to climb a pulpit which is made to scale a wall...
Page 249 - First for the subject being the mean to make or mar the whole fry of our state. 2. Secondly for the number, whether of them that are to learn, or of them that are to teach. 3. Thirdly for the necessity of the profession which may not be spared.
Page 303 - ... to pity, as soon as he to pardon, where he found just fault. The prayers of cockering mothers prevailed with him as much as the requests of indulgent fathers, rather increasing than mitigating his severity on their offending child. In a word he was plagosus Orbilius1 ; though it may be truly said (and safely for one out of his school) that others have taught as much learning with fewer lashes.
Page 303 - In a morning he would exactly and plainly construe and parse the lesson to his scholars, which done, he slept his hour (custom made him critical to proportion it) in his desk, in the school ; but woe be to the scholar that slept the while. Awaking, he heard them accurately ; and Atropos might be persuaded to pity as soon as he to pardon where he found just fault. The prayers of cockering mothers prevailed with him just as much as the requests of indulgent fathers, rather increasing than mitigating...
Page 103 - I had sacred to silence, would not my good freind in the citie maister Hewgh Offly, and the same my noble fellow in that order Syr Launcelot, at our next meeting, haue giue...
Page 308 - If the chancel have a minister, the belfry hath a master : and where youth is, as it is eachwhere, there must be trainers, or there will be worse. He that will not allow of this careful provision for such a seminary of masters, is most unworthy either to have had a good master himself, or hereafter to have a good one for his. Why should not teachers be well provided for, to continue their whole life in the school, as Divines, Lawyers, Physicians do in their several professions...
Page 176 - ... it. Reading if for nothing else it were, as for many thinges else it is, is verie needefull for religion, to read that which they must know, and ought to performe, if they haue not whom to heare, in that matter which they read.
Page 249 - Wheras now, the schoole being vsed but for a shift, afterward to passe thence to the other professions, though it send out very sufficient men to them, it selfe remaineth too too naked, considering the necessitie of the thing. I conclude therefore that this trade requireth a particular college, for these foure causes.
Page 303 - Stanford-rivers in Essex. I have heard from those who have heard him preach, that his sermons were not excellent, which to me seems no wonder ; partly, because there is a different discipline in teaching children and men ; partly, because such who make divinity (not the choice of their youth but) the refuge of their age, seldom attain to eminency therein.