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... Tutors take care to instruct their pupils in anything but a little humdrum Logick ; and as very few young fellows are disposed to study more than they are obliged to do , they have found out a new method of performing this public ...
... Tutors take care to instruct their pupils in anything but a little humdrum Logick ; and as very few young fellows are disposed to study more than they are obliged to do , they have found out a new method of performing this public ...
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... Tutor , who , of course , knew and could say something of the young man or his connections , or his plans for enlarging his mind by foreign travel , & c . ' Hunc igitur , adolescentem ingenuum praesento vobis , ' & c . 6 1 It was well ...
... Tutor , who , of course , knew and could say something of the young man or his connections , or his plans for enlarging his mind by foreign travel , & c . ' Hunc igitur , adolescentem ingenuum praesento vobis , ' & c . 6 1 It was well ...
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... tutor in a noble and influential family2 . But whoso- ever was his first patron , the University for several years , and the Church for many more , had ample proof of his meek piety , his sound learning , and good judgment . It was said ...
... tutor in a noble and influential family2 . But whoso- ever was his first patron , the University for several years , and the Church for many more , had ample proof of his meek piety , his sound learning , and good judgment . It was said ...
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... tutors . At the Commemoration there was no Hon . D.C.L. , only three Hon . M.A. About this time first appeared a book , which is now grown into much interest and importance , a book which is , probably , more consulted and referred to ...
... tutors . At the Commemoration there was no Hon . D.C.L. , only three Hon . M.A. About this time first appeared a book , which is now grown into much interest and importance , a book which is , probably , more consulted and referred to ...
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... Tutor of Magdalen . Though a man of more solid attainments than his two predecessors , he was a shy , nervous man ; and not having the heart to cleanse the Augean institution , nor face enough to keep so unsatisfactory an office , he ...
... Tutor of Magdalen . Though a man of more solid attainments than his two predecessors , he was a shy , nervous man ; and not having the heart to cleanse the Augean institution , nor face enough to keep so unsatisfactory an office , he ...
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