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This circumstance, which was deeply lamented by his parents and tutors, was in fact, in the best opinions, an advantage to him; for it often happens that apparent superiority does us damage, and that from apparent defect springs the saving of our life.
"And what will you be?" my cousin asked me. "I shall make books." "You mean that you will be a bookseller." "Oh, no," I replied, "I mean to make books to compose them." These dawning dispositions needed time and favourable circumstances to be developed, and what was so completely lacking in all my surroundings was ability. My worthy tutors were not endowed with any seductive qualities.
"She comes from one of the wealthiest homes in the suburbs of Chicago, and has had every advantage that civilization can offer. She's been abroad eight times, I believe, and has always studied at home under private tutors. She's an only daughter." "How interesting! That will be lots more diverting than a room-mate who has always done the same common-place things that I have.
Soon after the opening of the building, Principal Bethune and the Governors looked about for additional professors or instructors or tutors.
"'Then get them horses instead. But when only a few days afterwards he was informed that his incomparable sons had wearied of their horses, because they also were 'slow, and wished to ride on elephants instead, his Majesty began to feel disturbed in mind, and wonder what would come next, and how it was that the teaching of the tutors did not make his sons more moderate in their desires.
In the prospect of that event, Charles II promised a free pardon to all his subjects, excepting only such persons as should be excepted by parliament; and 'we do declare a liberty to tender consciences, and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion, which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom. Who could imagine, that, in the face of this solemn declaration, acts, the most oppressive and tyrannical, would be passed compelling pretended uniformity in belief and real uniformity in the mode of public worship driving the most pious and useful clergymen from their pulpits and livings preventing them from becoming tutors or schoolmasters and not suffering them to live within five miles of a city or town.
Dost thou remember?" "Aye," Ta-user took it up. "They made thee sing in the temple and it went sore against thee, Kenkenes. Most of the upper classes in the college here were hoarse or treble by turns, and the priests required thee by force from thy tutors because thou couldst sing. Thou wast a stubborn lad, as pretty as a mimosa and as surly as a caged lion.
Henry Mott, was an eminent practitioner in the city of New York, where he died in 1840, at the age of eighty-three. Valentine Mott was carefully educated by private tutors until he reached the age of nineteen, when he entered Columbia College, New York, as a medical student, and at the same time became a private medical pupil of his kinsman, Dr. Valentine Seaman.
The regular tutors referred to above were largely indentured servants who then constituted probably the majority of the teachers of the colonies. In 1773 Jonathan Boucher said that two thirds of the teachers of Maryland belonged to this class. The contact of Negroes with these servants is significant.
In the antiquated and romantic castle of Tegel, by the side of the pine forest, on the shore of the charming lake, near the beautiful city of Berlin, the great Humboldt, one hundred years ago to-day, was born, and there he was educated after the method suggested by Rousseau Campe, the philologist and critic, and the intellectual Kunth being his tutors.
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