The Whole Works of Roger Ascham, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from The Whole Works of Roger Ascham, Vol. 1: Now First Collected and Revised, With a Life of the Author These letters, indeed, written in Latin, are repulsive to the English reader, and have hitherto been printed without any regard whatever to the order in which they were written. Many of them have no date at all; others bear the date of the day only and not of the year, whilst even those which have both the day and the year given in full, are almost useless for historical purposes owing to the preposterous manner in which they are printed. Dr Johnson seems to have made little use of these letters, from which alone we can gain any knowledge of the writers thoughts and feelings, though there are not many collections extant, containing so curious a fund of literary anecdotes and furnishing such ample materials for literary biography. These letters extend over the space of about thirty years, beginning with 1539, when Ascham was a fellow of St Johns College, Cambridge, and ending in December 1568, a few days before his death. "Roger Ascham was born in the year 1515, at Kirby Wiske, (or Kirby Wicke,) a village near North Allerton in Yorkshire, of a family above the vulgar. His father, John Ascham, was house-steward in the family of Lord Scroop, and is said to have borne an unblemished reputation for honesty and uprightness of life. Margaret, wife of John Ascham, was allied to many considerable families, but her maiden name is not known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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