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  • his second book, The Schoole of Musicke, a tutor for lute and other instruments ... Lessons, was published. It was a cittern tutor for beginners and advanced ...
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  • accompany him on a journey to Greece, as a tutor for his children. It was ... Berlin, and in the same year was appointed tutor to Prince Friedrich William ...
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  • and vice-chancellor. In 1507, he became the tutor of the future Holy Roman ... of imperial politics when he was appointed tutor to Emperor Maximilian I& ...
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  • When Marvell returned, he found work as a tutor to the daughter of Fairfax ... in 1657. In the same year he became a tutor to Cromwell's nephew ...
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  • of 23, his father sought out to find a Christian tutor who could provide the best education for his children. Records show that while spending some ...
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  • He had entered her household as tutor to her son. His first known ... mature manner. About this time he became tutor to Lady Anne Clifford, daughter ...
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  • be an abject failure, he became a private tutor to keep poverty from the ... more years he had to continue working as a tutor. Although notoriously exploited ...
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  • Hölderlin had to earn his living as a tutor of children from well-to ... in 1800. In early 1802 he found a job as tutor for the children of the Hamburg ...
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  • but soon relinquished this office on becoming tutor in the family of the Earl of Bute. In 1759, Ferguson became professor of natural philosophy in ...
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  • ===Tutor to the Dauphin, 1670-1681=== A favorite of the court, in 1669 ... On September 13, 1670, he was appointed tutor to the Dauphin, only ...
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  • Schechter came to England as a tutor of the future leader of Progressive ... he was invited to [[London to serve as the tutor of rabbinics to Claude Montefiore ...
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  • in his spare time with the aid of a volunteer tutor named Charles Seeger. Budge became interested in learning the ancient Assyrian language in 1872 ...
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  • to Conversion), the Paidagogos (Moral Tutor), and the Stromateis (Miscellany ... He speaks of the "paidagogos," or tutor, as the divine Logos which ...
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  • of Diderot. Rousseau had been domestic tutor in the family of Condillac ... French court to Parma, Italy, to serve as tutor to the Duke Ferdinand of ...
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  • education was assigned to a German tutor (a doctor named Horstanus who couldn't speak French); and strict orders were given to him and to ...
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  • along with George Curzon and J. W. Mackail; his tutor did not think he would succeed, but he placed second to Mackail and was awarded a scholarship ...
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  • post in Gottstadt in March 1809 to become a private tutor in Neuchâtel. For two years he carried out his duties as a tutor while he followed Langsdorf ...
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  • throughout Italy, often serving as a tutor for the children of wealthy ... He was again a traveling mathematics tutor until 1496, when he accepted ...
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  • capital of Slovakia, where he worked as a tutor. Here he also met [František ... historian and politician and previously a tutor in Šafárik's family ...
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  • level academic position was as a lecturer and tutor in mathematics at the Institute of Education, University of London, from 1936 until he left for America. ...
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  • * [http://www.lessontutor.com/bf_borodin.html Lesson Tutor: Biography of classical composer Alexander Borodin] by Betty Fry Category:Musicians ...
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  • hiring the Stoic philosopher Cornutus to be his tutor. Later, with help once again of his uncle, Lucan was sent to Athens to complete his education ...
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  • wrangler, became fellow in 1766, and in 1768 tutor of his college. He lectured on Samuel Clarke, Joseph Butler, and John Locke, and also delivered a systematic ...
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  • where he studied logic and philosophy. He became a tutor at the University of Cambridge in 1909, and his interest gradually, mostly due to the influence ...
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  • already a well-known orientalist. He worked as a tutor and translator for the next six years, during which he published, on the request of King Christian ...
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  • outbreak of World War I, he worked as a private tutor at the Berlitz School in Bordeaux, France. === War service === On October 21, 1915, Owen ...
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  • Seas and the Pacific Ocean; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook ...
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  • He was also chaplain to Queen Victoria and tutor to the future King Edward VII. ... to Queen Victoria. He also became a private tutor to the Prince of Wales, in ...
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  • English as a second language by her mother and tutor. She was encouraged to write at an early age. In 1910, she left for America to attend Randolph ...
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  • world as the king who appointed Anna Leonowens as tutor and governess for his children. Thailand Gateway [http://www.thailandgateway.com/about_thailand/rama3 ...
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  • accorded this title during his lifetime. He was the tutor and a close ally of the 5th Dalai Lama, "The Great Fifth," as he is known, pronounced ...
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  • King of Samos. He is said to have acted as tutor to Polycrates; that he enjoyed the king's confidence we learn on the authority of Herodotus ...
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  • Japanese shogunate, and in 1870 became a private tutor to the emperor. He was appointed to many government posts in education and foreign affairs, including ...
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  • allowed to attend lessons with her brother's tutor. She published her first poem, anonymously, at the age of fourteen. In 1826, she published anonymously ...
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  • negative reports from Roderick's abusive tutor. Roderick ends up finding his maternal uncle, Tom Bowling, a sailor who attempts to support Roderick ...
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  • He became Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford from 1864 to 1866, but soon left for the Professorship of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow (1866 ...
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  • that must be completed and submitted to the tutor within specified time frames. Courses conclude with a final examination, which may be taken ...
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  • brought Abelard to arrange to become her tutor. From Heloise's letters ... He laid a plan to become Heloise's tutor and seduce her. He arranged ...
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  • to afford his education, so he became a tutor to other children in his ... Confucians. In 1844, Hong lost his job as tutor after he destroyed the tablets ...
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  • two years in Richmond, Virginia, working as a tutor for a wealthy family. His health suffered from this time onward in his life, and he struggled ...
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  • College, Oxford. In 1890, he became assistant tutor at Corpus Christi, and in 1894 was elected fellow of the college. While there, he published his first ...
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  • with her mother, younger sister Josephine, and a tutor. Upon her return to Chicago at the age of 19, Alicia was debuted at a grandiose Chicago ...
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  • scholars. Philometer VI had a Jewish tutor, the famous Aristobulus. During the reign of Ptolemy V, new critical editions of Homer, Hesiod and ...
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  • trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what ...
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  • brother al-Mu'tasim, who employed al-Kindī to tutor his son Ahmad. Al-Mu'tasim died in 842 and was succeeded by al-Wathiq who, in turn, was ...
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  • Countess of Warwick to whose son he had been tutor, and his political career continued to flourish. However, his political newspaper, The Freeholder, ...
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  • He left the university in 1748, becoming a private tutor in the family of a relative at Langensalza. Here unrequited love for a cousin (the "Fanny ...
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  • father was James Cassini, who first assigned a tutor to assist in Cassini's education, and later sent the young man to study theology and law under ...
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  • from Catherine II to go to Russia as a tutor for her son. In his later life, d'Alembert turned his efforts to literature and philosophy. ...
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  • After leaving Oxford and spending some time as a private tutor, Blackmore decided on a career in law. He entered the Middle Temple in 1849, and ...
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  • Connecticut, then went with a private tutor on a six-month tour of France, England, Italy, Greece, and the Middle East to study the masters ...
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  • After the war, Hampshire returned to his studies as a tutor and lecturer in philosophy at Oxford, where he spent five years as domestic bursar ...
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  • Malusha's brother Dobrynya was Vladimir's tutor and most trusted adviser. Hagiographic tradition also connects his childhood with the name ...
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  • and became his lifelong patron, making him tutor to his grandson, Lorenzo de' Medici. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the Italian humanist ...
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  • Having heard the teachings of the gospel by means of a tutor, however, she contemplated life's meaning from her luxurious prison, meditating ...
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  • secure a position at Wellesley College as a Greek tutor. Soon after she was offered a position teaching psychology, with the requirement that she study ...
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  • is also a philosopher.) He was elected fellow and tutor in philosophy at Balliol from 1947–1996; honorary fellow at Balliol from 1974-2002; and was ...
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  • Composer Biography: Jacques Offenbach] Lesson Tutor *[http://www.musicals101.com/operetta.htm A History of The Musical European Operetta: 1850 ...
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  • He lived in Corinth until his death, and became tutor to the two sons of Xeniades and manager of the household. Lives relates that he educated the two ...
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  • view of adult education. He worked for years as a tutor, giving lectures to manual workers and all those who were interested in different political and ...
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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 ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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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  • to live with her parents. He worked briefly as a tutor at Cedar Valley Seminary in Iowa. In 1892, Veblen decided to resume graduate school studies ...
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  • Also Can Do This!] Diary of a Private O Level Maths Tutor in Singapore. Retrieved December 16, 2021. Another type of mnemonic describes facts ...
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  • Ficino became tutor of the grandson of Cosimo de Medici, Lorenzo, and instilled in him a reverence for the ancient Greeks. Lorenzo de Medici ...
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  • with a Russian painter husband became her tutor and subsequently, Miz Mizz ... School of Music. With the help of a private tutor she studied for an interview ...
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  • where he earned a living working as a journalist and tutor. Polanyi also conducted the bulk of his research for what would later become The Great Transformation ...
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  • Catholic Abbé, who later secures him a post as tutor for the children of the Mayor of Verrières, M. de Rênal. Julien acts as a pious cleric, but in ...
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  • the end of 1763, Smith obtained a lucrative post as tutor to the young Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, and his younger brother Hew Campbell Scott ...
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  • in 1926, and was hired by the school as a philosophy tutor the following year. Langer taught philosophy at Radcliffe from 1927 to 1942. She also ...
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  • Church. At the same time he worked as a tutor at Yale. His early ministry career was rather successful, and in 1870 Sumner became a rector of ...
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  • studied criminal law in his youth and serve as a tutor to the Wei princes. The prime minister of Wei favored him and recommended to the Wei ruler that ...
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  • Unamuno returned to Bilbao and worked as a private tutor; together with his friends he also founded the Socialist journal La Lucha de Clases. He assumed ...
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  • Lutheran Church. He taught philosophy at Halle as a tutor (Privatdozent) from 1887, then at Göttingen as professor from 1901, and at Freiburg im Breisgau ...
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  • al-‘Azīz had appointed as Ustad 'tutor'" (O'Leary ... officials both high and low in rank: his tutor Abū l-Qasim Sa‘īd ibn ...
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  • famous examples of this is Helen Keller's tutor, Anne Sullivan, who was educated at Boston's Perkins School for the Blind. In many parts of ...
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  • of Venice. For two months he functioned as a tutor to Mocenigo, who probably was an agent of the Venetian Inquisition. When Bruno attempted to leave ...
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  • from these academies, Orazio hired Tassi to tutor his daughter privately. During this tutelage, Tassi raped Artemisia. Tassi initially promised ...
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  • Most often, edutainment seeks either to tutor in one or more specific subjects, or to change behavior by engendering specific sociocultural attitudes ...
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  • for the failure of his expedition. The Imperial Tutor, Cai Jing, comes to visit him. He suggests that Gao Qiu should recommend that the emperor grant ...
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  • Woo served as a tutor to his neighbor's sons, and the neighbor introduced Woo to his sister, Koharu. They fell in love, but had difficulty ...
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  • Karaite merchant, Simhah Bobowitsch, and his tutor, the Karaite writer Avraham Firkovich, fabricated documents and tombstone inscriptions in Crimea stating ...
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