The Age of the Renascence An Outline of the History of the Papacy From the Retu
The Age of the Renascence An Outline of the History of the Papacy From the Retu
Paul Van Dyke
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135 scholars the strict observance of the customs of worship. At the school table prayer was made be- fore and after meat. The older scholars heard mass every morning, went to confession every month, and kept honestly all the prescribed fasts of the Church. But the asceticism of his system was based on clas- sic rather than on monkish ideas, and endeavored to subdue the body by training it. The boys had to play and exercise every day in the open air in run- ning, wrestling, swimming, riding, ba...ll-playing, or shooting with the bow. Sometimes they were di- vided into two armies which fought battles. Some- times they were sent hunting or fishing, or, in summer, taken on long tramps to the Alps. He never wrote anything, saying " the ancients had written enough ; it was better to read them " — probably only his excuse to himself for giving his whole learning to his boys, for he always praised and admired the writings of others. He had his reward in the tears of joy that were seen in his eyes when one did well in the crowning exercise of the school, an elegant rendering of Greek into Latin, before visitors, and in the universal love and respect which came to him from all men in an envious and quarrel- some age.
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