Sir Thomas More
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ISBN13: 9781458974839
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: should be taken lest the children should become proud of their learning or ability. Of Drue and Nicholas the following mention occurs in another letter.1 I rejoice that Master Drue is returned safe, of whose safety you know I was careful. If I loved you not exceedingly I should envy this your so great happiness, to have had so many great scholars for your masters. For I think Master Nicholas is with you also, and that you have learned of him much Astronomy; so that I hear that you have proceeded so far in this science that you now know not only the pole-star, the dog, and such like of the common constellations, but also ? which argueth an absolute and cunning astronomer?the chief planets themselves; and you are able to discern the sun from the moon. Besides More's children, who after their marriages still lived with their father and brought up their own children under his roof, at last he had eleven grandchildren to form a new school. The family included also his father, Sir John More, who, in 1519, married a third wife,2 and who lived in full possession of his faculties and in active discharge of his judicial duties till 1531. Of the filial reverence paid to him by his son many anecdotes are told, of which the most famous is that preserved by Roper.8 Whensoever he passed through Westminster Hall to his place in the Chancery, by the court of the King's Bench, if his father, one of the judges there, had been satte ere he came, he would 1 More to his whole School, Stapleton, cap. x. p. 257. a Erasm. Epp. x. 30. s Page 26. go into the same court and there reverently kneeling downe in the sight of them all duely aske his father's blessing. The fullest contemporary description of this happy household is the famous letter of Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten. It has for...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458974839 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458974839 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 204 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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