 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 612 Seiten
...converse in Greek fluently, and without embarrassment. . . . ' That boy,' said one of my masters, . . . ' could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one.' " From Bath De Quincey went for a short time to Winkfield School in Wiltshire, which he left to make... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1909 - 638 Seiten
...fifteen he not only read Greek, but spoke it fluently ; and one of his astounded teachers remarked, "That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." From the grammar school at Manchester, whither he was sent in 1800, he soon ran away, finding the instruction... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - 940 Seiten
...grammar schools of Bath and Manchester, especially in Greek. "That boy," said one of his teachers, "could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." He ran away from the Manchester school, and had a brief adventurous career among the Welsh hills and... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1910 - 442 Seiten
...moral essays, etc. "That boy," said one of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger to me, "that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." He who honored me with this eulogy was a scholar, "and a ripe and good one," and of all my tutors,... | |
 | 1910 - 1038 Seiten
...measures, but could converse in Greek fluently and without embarrassment; one of his masters said of him, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." Towards the close of his fifteenth year he visited Ireland, with a companion of his own age, Lord Westport,... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1910 - 270 Seiten
...language — a process that must have racked the Greek considerably. "That boy," said one of his masters, "could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." His father had died when De Quincey was only seven years of age, and the boy was kept in school by... | |
 | EDWIN WATTS CHUBB - 1910 - 426 Seiten
...moral essays, etc. "That boy," said one of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger to me, "that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I 103 could address an English one." He who honored me with this eulogy was a scholar, "and a ripe and... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1416 Seiten
...in his own way, and at a preceding school his master had said of him to a friend, " That boy f;ould harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." But it was now an abiding grievance to him that an enthusiastic head master continued his lessons into the... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 Seiten
...age of fifteen, he was so thoroughly versed in Greek that his professor said of him to a friend : " That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." De Quincey was sent in this year to the Manchester grammar school; but his mind was in advance of the... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 Seiten
...age of fifteen, he was so thoroughly versed in Greek that his professor said of him to a friend : " That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." De Quincey was sent in this year to the Manchester grammar school; but his mind was in advance of the... | |
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That boy," said one of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger to me, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one. 
