 | 1876 - 782 Seiten
...stultified by the absurd discipline to which she was subjected. "The chief thing I had to do," she says, "was to learn by heart a page of Johnson's 'Dictionary,' not only to spell the words, give their parts of speech and meaning, but, as an exercise of memory, to remember their order of succession."... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1874 - 386 Seiten
...met. Then a steel rod, with a semi-circle which went under the chin, was clasped to the steel busk in my stays. In this constrained state I, and most of...Johnson's dictionary, not only to spell the words, give their parts of speech and meaning, but as an exercise of memory to remember their order of succession.... | |
 | Mary Somerville, Martha Charters Somerville - 1874 - 398 Seiten
...met. Then a steel rod, with a semi-circle which went under the chin, was clasped to the steel busk in my stays. In this constrained state I, and most of...Johnson's dictionary, not only to spell the words, give their parts of speech and meaning, but as an exercise of memory to remember their order of succession.... | |
 | 1874 - 256 Seiten
...met. Then a steel rod, with a semi-circle, which went under the chin, was clasped to the steel busk in my stays. In this constrained state I, and most of...Johnson's Dictionary — not only to spell the words, give their parts of speech and meaning, but, as an exercise of memory, to remember their order of succession.... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1874 - 436 Seiten
...met. Then a steel rod, with a semi-circle which went under the chin, was clasped to the steel busk in my stays. In this constrained state I, and most of...Johnson's dictionary, not only to spell the words, give their parts of speech and meaning, but as an exercise of memory to remember their order of succession.... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1874 - 802 Seiten
...at a boarding-school at Musselburgh, where she was utterly wretched, and where the chief thing she had to do "was to learn by heart a page of Johnson's Dictionary ; not only to spell the words, give their parts of speech and meaning, but, as an exercise of memory, to remember their order of succession."... | |
 | 1875 - 852 Seiten
...Then a steel rod, with a semi-circle which went under the chin, was clasped to the steel busk in the stays. In this constrained state I, and most of the younger girls, had to prepare our lesions." — Pcrianal ßtcollcctimi of lían SomtnUic. 33 No. DIX.] [May where, m Miss Austen's words,... | |
 | 1876 - 792 Seiten
...stultified by the absurd discipline to which she was subjected. "The chief thing I had to do," she says, "was to learn by heart a page of Johnson's ' Dictionary,' not only to spell the words, give their parts of speech and meaning, bnt, as an exercise of memory, to remember their order of succession."... | |
 | 1876 - 778 Seiten
...the absurd discipline to which she was subjected. " The chief thing I had to do," she says, " was tu learn by heart a page of Johnson's ' Dictionary,' not only to spell the words, give their parts of speech and meaning, but, as an exercise of memory, to remember their order of succession."... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1883 - 430 Seiten
...girls were kept in perpetual restraint : put in stays and steel busks and rods to improve the figure. "In this constrained state I, and most of the younger...prepare our lessons. The chief thing I had to do was to leam by heart a page of Johnson's Dictionary, not only to spell the words, give their parts of speech... | |
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I was enclosed in stiff stays with a steel busk in front, while, above my frock, bands drew my shoulders back till the shoulder-blades met. Then a steel rod, with a semi-circle which went under the chin, was clasped to the steel busk in my stays. In this... 
