...Cicero the primary error of modern education, "for men began to hunt more after words than matter." "Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham with their...Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were studious, 30 The historical background is found in Morris W. Croll, Style, Rhetoric, and Rhythm, ed. J. Max Patrick,...

...infinite, and curious paines vpon Cicero the Orator, and Hermogenes the Rhetorican, besides his owne Bookes of Periods, and imitation, and the like: Then did...and Ascham with their Lectures and Writings, almost diefie Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure, all young men that were studious vnto that delicate and...

...grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero...did Erasmus take occasion to make the scoffing echo; Decent annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone, [I have spent ten years in reading Cicero:] and the echo...

...grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero...Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of the Periods, and Imitation, and the like. Then did Carr of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures...

...grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero...Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of the Periods, and Imitation, and the like. Then did Carr of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures...

...lectures; according to Francis Bacon, he and Ascham almost deified Cicero and Demosthenes, and allured ' all young men that were studious unto that delicate and polished kind of learning'.5 In 1550, when Ascham returned to Cambridge after tutoring the princess Elizabeth, he reported...