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  • Homer, and Pindar, and shall diligently marke the difference they vse, in proprietie of wordes, in forme of sentence, in handlyng of their matter, he shall easelie perceiue, what is fitte and decorum in euerie one, to the trew vse of perfite Imitation.

    The Scholemaster 1570

  • I make, (as now, in respect of my Preface,) small account: to fyle thẽ for the fine handlyng of subtile curious disputers.

    The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567

  • Geometricall Elementes_, is published, to your handlyng: being vnlatined people, and not Vniuersitie Scholers: Verily, I thinke it nedelesse.

    The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567

  • Proportion, and proportionalytie hath purchased vnto it selfe a peculier maner of handlyng and workyng: and so may seme an other forme of

    The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567

  • Homer_, and _Pindar_, and shall diligently marke the difference they vse, in proprietie of wordes, in forme of sentence, in handlyng of their matter, he shall easelie perceiue, what is fitte and _decorum_ in euerie one, to the trew vse of perfite Imitation.

    The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541

  • And this tormentour wolde not once knoweledge he had done amisse, but had rather playe the starke mad man, then confesse his faute: and yet agaynst such is not taken an accion of euyll handlyng, neither hath the rigoure of the lawe anye power agaynste suche huge crueltie.

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • The lawes of man do temper the fathers power: the same also permit vnto the seruauntes an accion of euyll handlyng, and from whence then commeth thys crueltye amonge christen men?

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • A gẽtle horse is better tamed with puping of the mouth or softe handlyng, then wyth whyp or spurres.

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • Might not an accion of euyl handlyng children meruelous iustli be laid against such mothers?

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

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