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  • and was placed under the care of a tutor. He was also trained by his ... The reminiscences of his son's tutor, Mr. Smyth, show anxious ...
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  • despite the fact that he had been Leo's tutor. Photius went into exile--some say he retired voluntarily, being already old--to the monastery of ...
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  • Sir John Walsh at Little Sodbury in about 1521, and tutor to his children. His opinions involved him in controversy with his fellow clergymen, and around ...
    14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
  • When he had reached the third class, Mme Rimbaud hired a tutor, Father Ariste Lhéritier, for private lessons. Lhéritier succeeded in sparking ...
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  • advisor to Marshal Gouvoin Saint Cyr and as a tutor to his son. In 1829, Cournot acquired a doctorate in sciences, focusing on mechanics and astronomy. ...
    14 KB (2,201 words) - 12:00, 30 October 2021
  • and Bristol). He also worked as a teacher and tutor, gave public lectures and sermons, and almost single handedly wrote and published two periodicals ...
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  • and a young Jewish physician was his tutor in Latin, but he was mainly self-educated. With his scanty earnings he bought a Latin copy of John ...
    14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
  • Esaias, a diplomat in the Swedish service, became a tutor in the family of Petrus Julius Coyet, one of the resident ministers of King Charles X of Sweden ...
    14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:05, 23 December 2022
  • for medical studies, worked as a private tutor, and was an extra at the Royal Theater in Stockholm. He returned to Uppsala in January 1870, and ...
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  • East Lothian, where he became the tutor of Jane Welsh, afterwards famous as wife of essayist Thomas Carlyle. He was engaged in 1812, to Isabella ...
    14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
  • James Hussee, his master at Magdalen, as tutor to William, the son of William ... but he soon found work nearby, again a tutor, this time to the son of ...
    29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
  • In 1833 the deposed king, Charles X of France, summoned Cauchy to be tutor to his grandson, the duke of Bordeaux, an appointment which enabled ...
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  • In the last decade of the century he was appointed tutor to Prince Henry (afterwards Henry VIII). He wrote for his pupil a lost Speculum principis ...
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  • the late historian Sergei Solovyov, who had been his tutor, only reprimanded Solovyov for "inappropriate opinions" and temporarily stopped him ...
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  • her family and serving as a type of governess/tutor to her younger brothers and sisters. Her father's public responsibilities left him unavailable ...
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  • member of the group who acts as the pup's tutor (Deborah 2007). Their behavior and small size (they weigh less than one kilogram) makes them ...
    15 KB (2,314 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
  • an offer to go to South Carolina as a private tutor. Instead of reaching his destination, he was convinced to visit Georgia, which was then a magnet ...
    15 KB (2,202 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
  • dislike to school life, he was educated by a tutor. He was a rapid learner and by the age of fourteen was fluent in French, Greek, Italian, and ...
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  • was the Tang princes' private tutor and a great calligrapher himself. Under the influence of the family tradition and the strict instruction ...
    14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:43, 15 October 2020
  • for economic reasons to accept a position as tutor in Zürich, were he subsequently married. There he also became familiar with Kant’s philosophy ...
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