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Examples
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But people knows it as political university more than a scholer university.
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Martialle the scholer of blessed Peter, deuised that Bysshoppes should gyue their benediction at the Agnus.
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When they were both come in the Iudges presence, Protagoras spake to his scholer in this wyse:
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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So did every scholer & secular clerke or versifier, when he wrote any short poeme or matter of good lesson put it in ryme, whereby it came to passe that all your old Proverbes and common sayinges, which they would have plausible to the reader and easy to remember and beare away, were of that sorte as these.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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There in the seconde place, you shall praise the aucthoure who made the fable, whiche praise maie sone bee gotte of any studious scholer, if he reade the aucthours life and actes ther - in, or the Godlie preceptes in his fables, shall giue abundant praise.
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At what time myselfe, then a yoong scholer "(he was born in 1545)," beheld the funeral pompe thereof, which trulie was great and answerable both to his birth and calling, with store of burning torches and mourning weedes.
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[Sidenote: The Italians iudgement of Englishmen brought vp in Italie.] what the _Italian_ sayth of the English Man, what the master reporteth of the scholer: who vttereth playnlie, what is taught by him, and what learned by you, saying _Englese Italianato, e vn diabolo incarnato_, that is to say, you remaine men in shape and facion, but becum deuils in life and condition.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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The thirde is a _Chria_ mixt, bothe _verball_ and notyng the facte, as Diogenes seyng a boie wanton & dissolute, did strike his teacher with a staffe, vtteryng these woordes: why dooest thou teache thy scholer so dissolutlie.
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France, Italy, and Spain to very good purpose, as I believe, and the gaining of these four languages, besides he is a scholer and well-read in the Latin and Greek authors, and no doubt of an approved conversation, for he now comes lately out of the house of the Lord
Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905
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For whan the scholemaster is angrie with some other matter, then will he sonest faul to beate his scholer: and though he him selfe should be punished for his folie, yet must he beate some scholer for his pleasure: though there be no cause for him to do so, nor yet fault in the scholer to deserue so.
The Scholemaster 1870
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