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And when, one fatal August day, the Red King was found pierced by an arrow under the trees of the New Forest, his younger brother, Duke Henry, whom men called Beauclerc, "the good scholar," for his love of learning and of books, ascended the throne of England as King Henry I. And the very year of his accession, on the 11th of November, 1100, he married, in the Abbey of Westminster, the Princess Edith of Scotland, then a fair young lady of scarce twenty-one.
He possessed an ample fortune, but for a while laid a restraint upon his appetites, and passions, and dedicated for some time a certain number of hours every day to his studies, by which means he acquired a degree of learning, that entitled him to the character of a fine scholar.
For Heaven's sake train him in something, so that he can handle himself, and have free and confident use of his powers. There isn't a more helpless creature in the universe than a scholar with a vast amount of information over which he has no control. He is like a man with a load of hay so badly put upon his cart that it all slides off before he can get to market.
However, it is noticeable that when some retired scholar is once interested in an active man of the world, he is more inclined to admire him than others are.
Juliet Wentworth had married four years before this date a scholar and archæologist whom she had met at Harvard during her American stay. Mr. Sparling was an Englishman, and a man of some means who was devoting himself to exploration in Asia Minor. The marriage was not really happy, though they were in love with each other.
And as they were a labour of love to both teacher and scholar, and as it was the aim of each to see quite to the bottom of every matter, where it was possible, and to leave no difficulties behind them on the road which they had not cleared away, no wonder Ellen went forward steadily and rapidly. Reading also became a wonderful pleasure.
Every man, woman, and child born with five fingers on each hand was henceforward better qualified as a critic than any poet or scholar of time past.
"But her remittances for the infant must have been made by letters, and the letters would have had post-marks?" "Well, I dare say; I am no scholar myself. But suppose you see Marie Hubert, that is my niece-in-law, perhaps she has kept the envelopes." "''Where does Madame Hubert live?" "It is just a league off by the short path; you can't miss the way.
"You will indeed learn something by reading," answered the philosopher, "but the more you read the less you will know. That is what makes reading of value." "But how shall I know what beliefs I should hold in order to live the best life?" the young scholar asked.
We explore the entire structure of the intellect. Our Professor Locke, himself an afflicted one, is a man of vast erudition a scholar of an advanced type, a philosopher whose adventures into the field of psychology and natural science is widely known. He has charge of the practical work of the Mercer Institute, and under him its results are positive and unique."
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