Nor were they, unlike many ordained public schoolmasters, accorded the prestige attributed to members of the clergy.
Nor has the schoolmaster been altogether willing to regard his classroom as chiefly an exploration ground for the rambling psychological explorer.
There was also the doctor, and possibly the schoolmaster or mistress.
Officeholding has imaginative precedence: judges are not spoken of as husbands or schoolmasters, nor prisoners as wives.
Whereupon the mayor, the minister, the aldermen, the schoolmaster, capital burgesses and common burgesses, in all above one hundred, did publicly and solemnly pronounce it.
As he was a brilliant pupil at the primary school, his schoolmaster persuaded his family to allow him to continue his formal education.
In the process they were putting forward an alternative to the professional model offered by the public schoolmasters.
In addition, two of the essays are concerned with pre-university schools and schoolmasters.