This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...one of the 5th forme being called out to translate some sentences of an unexpected author (extempore) into good Latin, and then one of the 6th or 7th forme to translate the same (extempore also) into good greeke; then the M' himself expounded some parte of a Lat. or Gr. author (one day in prose, another in verse) ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...one of the 5th forme being called out to translate some sentences of an unexpected author (extempore) into good Latin, and then one of the 6th or 7th forme to translate the same (extempore also) into good greeke; then the M' himself expounded some parte of a Lat. or Gr. author (one day in prose, another in verse) wherein we were to be practised that afternoon. "At dinner and supper times we rcade some portion of the Lat. 1 Beaver, or bever, a name given to any refreshment taken between the regular meals. Derived from the old French word beivre now boire, and originally meaning "drink," or a "time of drinking." By an order of the Dean and Chapter of 3rd December, 1601, it was declared unlawful "for any one to sell or to alienate to any out of his own household the Abbey allowance called Bevers" (Extracts from Acts of Chapter, p. 10). There is a curious passage in Samuel Ward's Life of Faith, 1622, pp. 54-5, in which this word is used. "Why," asks he, " should not thy soule have her due drinkes, breakfastes, meales, undermeales, bevers, and aftermeales as well as thy body 1" See also Murray's Xew English Dictionary, vol. i. p. 837; and Notes and Queries, 2nd Series, viii. 270; 7th Series, ii. 306, 454, 514; iii. 18. in a manuscript (to facilitate the reading of such hands). And the prebendaries then have their table conimonlic set in the Hall, some of them had oftentimes good remembrances sent unto them from hence and withall a theame to make or speak some extempore verses upon. "Betwixt one to 3, that lesson which, out of some author appointed for that day, had been by the M' expounded unto them (out of Cicero, Virgil, Hom', Eurip; Isoc; Livie, Sallust &c.) was to be exactlie gone through by con...
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