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Thomas Cooper

 

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Caesar : Commentaries On The Gallic War

'In the spring of 1826, after getting through Valpy's Delectus, and a part of Stewart's "Cornelius Nepos, " and also a part of Justin, but somewhat clumsily, with the help of Ainsworth's Dictionary, I commenced Caesar, and sped on well, so that by the time I had reached the third book, "De Bello Gallico, " I found myself able to read page after page, with scarcely more than a glance, now and then, at the dictionary. I remember wll myfirst triumphant feeling of this kind. I sat on Ping

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

Xenophon : Memorabilia

"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon..."

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

Anacreon : Odes of Anacreon

"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the Odes of Anacreon, ..."

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

Homer : The Iliad

In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the odes of Anacreon, and then commenced the Iliad. I worked hard at Greek.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

Voltaire : Charles the Twelfth

"Under his instruction -while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' of Moliere - I caught hold of such good French pronunciation as would have enabled me soon to converse very pleasantly in the language, could I have found acompanion"

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

Moliere : Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

"Under his instruction - while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and Moliere's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' - I caught hold of such good French pronunciation as would have enabled me soon to converse very pleasantly in the language, could I have found a companion."

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

Goldoni : Comedies

"As I thought I could easily learn Italian, I took lessons from Signor D'Albrione... So we read together part one of the comedies of Goldoni...."

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata

So we read together ... a part of the beautiful "Gerusalemme Liberata", of Tasso, in that most beautiful tongue.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

Herder : [volume of tales]

I was soon able to make my way in a volume of tales by Herder, Lessing , and others. My school prospered for I took care to attend to its duties assiduously; and yet kept firm hold of my studies, rising early in the morning, and, with my book in my hand, as of old, walked from our little home in St. Mary's Street, along the Sincil Dyke, and on to Canwick Common, whenever weather permitted me to do so.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

Lessing : [volume of tales]

I was soon able to make my way in a volume of tales by Herder, Lessing , and others. My school prospered for I took care to attend to its duties assiduously; and yet kept firm hold of my studies, rising early in the morning, and, with my book in my hand, as of old, walked from our little home in St. Mary's Street, along the Sincil Dyke, and on to Canwick Common, whenever weather permitted me to do so.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

 : books on history

The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first employment on week-day mornings, whether I rose at three or four, until seven o'clock, when I sat down to the stall. A book or a periodical in my hand while I breakfasted, gave me another half-hour's reading, I had another half-hour, and sometimes an hour's reading or study of language, at from one to two o'clock, the hour of dinner -- usually eating my food with a spoon, after I had cut it in pieces, and having my eyes on a book all the time."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

 : foreign language grammar

The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first employment on week-day mornings, whether I rose at three or four, until seven o'clock, when I sat down to the stall. A book or a periodical in my hand while I breakfasted, gave me another half-hour's reading, I had another half-hour, and sometimes an hour's reading or study of language, at from one to two o'clock, the hour of dinner -- usually eating my food with a spoon, after I had cut it in pieces, and having my eyes on a book all the time."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

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The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first employment on week-day mornings, whether I rose at three or four, until seven o'clock, when I sat down to the stall. A book or a periodical in my hand while I breakfasted, gave me another half-hour's reading, I had another half-hour, and sometimes an hour's reading or study of language, at from one to two o'clock, the hour of dinner -- usually eating my food with a spoon, after I had cut it in pieces, and having my eyes on a book all the time."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Book

  

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The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first employment on week-day mornings, whether I rose at three or four, until seven o'clock, when I sat down to the stall. A book or a periodical in my hand while I breakfasted, gave me another half-hour's reading, I had another half-hour, and sometimes an hour's reading or study of language, at from one to two o'clock, the hour of dinner -- usually eating my food with a spoon, after I had cut it in pieces, and having my eyes on a book all the time."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Serial / periodical

  

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The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first employment on week-day mornings, whether I rose at three or four, until seven o'clock, when I sat down to the stall. A book or a periodical in my hand while I breakfasted, gave me another half-hour's reading, I had another half-hour, and sometimes an hour's reading or study of language, at from one to two o'clock, the hour of dinner -- usually eating my food with a spoon, after I had cut it in pieces, and having my eyes on a book all the time."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Serial / periodical

  

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The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first employment on week-day mornings, whether I rose at three or four, until seven o'clock, when I sat down to the stall. A book or a periodical in my hand while I breakfasted, gave me another half-hour's reading, I had another half-hour, and sometimes an hour's reading or study of language, at from one to two o'clock, the hour of dinner -- usually eating my food with a spoon, after I had cut it in pieces, and having my eyes on a book all the time."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Serial / periodical

  

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The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first employment on week-day mornings, whether I rose at three or four, until seven o'clock, when I sat down to the stall. A book or a periodical in my hand while I breakfasted, gave me another half-hour's reading, I had another half-hour, and sometimes an hour's reading or study of language, at from one to two o'clock, the hour of dinner -- usually eating my food with a spoon, after I had cut it in pieces, and having my eyes on a book all the time."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper      Print: Serial / periodical

 

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