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David Alexander Millar
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George Buchanan; A Memorial, 1506-1906 |
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English |
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Paperback |
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344 |
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2010-10-14 |
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0217255000 |
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General Books LLC |
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1.12 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.77 inches |
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Product Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: word pauper was placed opposite the names of these struggling graduates. Soon Buchanan was to return to France to continue his studies. He followed thither his former teacher, Major, and sought as that scholar had once done to take his final degree to qualify for a professional certificate. So far, by taking his Bachelor's degree, he bad completed only a part of his training in order to become a Regent. He required to take the Master's degree before such an appointment could be secured, and with this object in view he would doubtless never have broken his course of study at Paris, had not indifferent health and ultimately Major's European fame attracted him to St. Andrews in order to study the subject of Logicthen alone necessary to him for the Bachelor's degree. Under the existing conditions this was possible, for the studies and the degrees of the University were recognised by all other universities. At the Scots College, Paris, Buchanan renewed his academic studies in France. He owed his nomination as a bursar to Major a circumstance which has sometimes been pointed to as hardly appreciated by Buchanan, if his severe criticisms of his teacher are rightly to be weighed against it. The two facts are, at least, not inconsistent. Although as a bursar he would receive his board and education free, he tells us that the first two years of his life were passed in " hard struggle with untoward fortune."i Very obviously he shared the somewhat unpleasant lot of the majority of the students at the Paris Colleges. The accommodation was small and ill-provided ; the food meagre and not of the best description. To add to the troubles of mere living, the amount of study requisite was very exacting. Early morning saw the students at work, and, after the mid-day interval, they were equall...
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