Download or read book The Schoolmaster, Vol. 1 of 2 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Schoolmaster, Vol. 1 of 2: Essays on Practical Education, Selected From the Works of Ascham, Milton, Locke, and Butler; From the Quarterly Journal of Education; And From Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction The Book of the Cock-pit, as we shall see from a passage in his Schoolmaster, in which he apparently alludes to some disrepute to which he had exposed him self by the habits we have mentioned. Both studious and religious as he was, Ascham was no ascetic, but seems to have had a keen zest for the pleasures of society. In a curious epistle written from Germany, to his friend Raven, One Ofthe fellows of St. John's, he says: For understanding of the Italian I am meet well; but surely I drink Dutch better than I speak Dutch. (he means German.) Tell Mr. D. Maden, I will drink with him now a carouse of wine; and would to God he had a vessel of Rhenish wine, on condition that I paid forty shillings for it; and, perchance, when I come to Cam bridge, I will so provide here, that every year I will have a little piece of Rhenish wine. He is also said to have been a proficient in music. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.