Smirke and his pupil read the ancient poets together, and rattled through them at a pleasant rate, very different from that steady grubbing pace with which he was obliged to go over the classis ground at Grey Friars, scenting out each word and digging up every root in the way.

Mr. Watson also arranged with the son of the village curate to tutor Kenneth and prepare him for college; but either the tutor was incompetent or the pupil did not apply himself, for at twenty Kenneth Forbes was very ignorant, indeed, and seemed not to apply himself properly to his books.

At sixteen Miss Mitchell left Mr. Peirce's school as a pupil, but was retained as assistant teacher; she soon relinquished that position and opened a private school on Traders' Lane.

The Riverside Primer and Reader, as stated in its Introduction, "is designed to serve as the sole text-book in reading required by a pupil.

In that book, therefore, the pupil was led by easy exercises to an intelligent reading of pieces of literature, both verse and prose, so that he might become in a slight degree familiar with literature before he parted with his sole text-book.

The pupil, upon laying down his Primer and Reader and proposing to enter the promised land of literature, could find a volume of prose consisting of Fables and Folk Stories, into the pleasures of which he had already been initiated; but until now he could find no volume of poetry especially prepared for him which should fulfill the promise of the verse offered to him in his Primer and Reader.

Ne'er shall his form within my pupil be dim, For my eye's cell is but a chamber for him.

First he had felt that his giant pupil was disgraceda man without spirit.

The modern schoolmaster is expected to know a little of every thing, because his pupil is required not to be entirely ignorant of any thing.

In the morning of Tuesday, June 15, while we sat at Dr. Adams's, we talked of a printed letter from the Reverend Herbert Croft, to a young gentleman who had been his pupil, in which he advised him to read to the end of whatever books he should begin to read.

To discover these principles, might be difficult; but was a task imperiously required at her hands, as she believed, ere she yielded the present and future happiness of her pupil to the power of any man.

"Remember, I'm your pupil.

"A very big pupil.

There were twenty-three in all, every pupil attending the school that day.

" "Certainly, my dear majorcertainly, my dear Mr. Robertmy old pupil, and, I hope, my friendall this is true enough, and very natural.

Although he employed induction, it was his aim to withdraw the mind from the contemplation of Nature, and to fix it on its own phenomena,to look inward rather than outward; a method carried out admirably by his pupil Plato.

When Plato returned from Sicily Aristotle joined his disciples at Athens, and was his pupil for seventeen years.

He became Elijah's constant companion and pupil and ministrant, until the great man's departure.

If the pupil was an infant, the tutor could act without the intervention of the pupil; if the pupil was above seven years of age, he was considered to have an imperfect will.

If the pupil was an infant, the tutor could act without the intervention of the pupil; if the pupil was above seven years of age, he was considered to have an imperfect will.

If the pupil was an infant, the tutor could act without the intervention of the pupil; if the pupil was above seven years of age, he was considered to have an imperfect will.

The youth ceased to be a pupil, if a boy, at fourteen; if a girl, at twelve.

The tutor managed the estate of the pupil, but was liable for loss occasioned by bad management.

He was born four hundred and eighty-four years before Christ, and was the pupil of Ageladas.

His old pupil Henry refused, however, to receive him, and Thomas returned to Canterbury.