School Experience of a Fag at a Private and Public SchoolSmith, Elder, and Company, 1854 - 311 Seiten |
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... grave and important subject . It appears to me that the public have received an impression of the management of public schools , and the influence of their discipline , which is very far from being fair and correct ;
... grave and important subject . It appears to me that the public have received an impression of the management of public schools , and the influence of their discipline , which is very far from being fair and correct ;
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... influence of the government of the little community . In the chapters on private - school life , I have drawn much on the information and experiences of others , in order to give greater complete- ness to the picture . But I had no need ...
... influence of the government of the little community . In the chapters on private - school life , I have drawn much on the information and experiences of others , in order to give greater complete- ness to the picture . But I had no need ...
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... influence , incurred all responsibility ; which , however badly they might discharge it , could never be shaken off . Falling rapidly in his position , from that first evening when he was made a laughing stock to the whole school , it ...
... influence , incurred all responsibility ; which , however badly they might discharge it , could never be shaken off . Falling rapidly in his position , from that first evening when he was made a laughing stock to the whole school , it ...
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... influence of a pinch ; and was more than once sent to my room for retaliating with a blow , when irritated by having a pin inserted into the small of my leg . Lessons over , we adjourned into the play- ground . I think I said it had ...
... influence of a pinch ; and was more than once sent to my room for retaliating with a blow , when irritated by having a pin inserted into the small of my leg . Lessons over , we adjourned into the play- ground . I think I said it had ...
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... influence is ineffectual . I may speak too strongly , but I cannot be mis- taken in my feeling that the one fault to be put down in schools is coarseness in all its varied forms , and the one thing to be inculcated is gen- tlemanly ...
... influence is ineffectual . I may speak too strongly , but I cannot be mis- taken in my feeling that the one fault to be put down in schools is coarseness in all its varied forms , and the one thing to be inculcated is gen- tlemanly ...
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Seite 86 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Seite 285 - Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with miser care! Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Seite 54 - Though thy slumber may be deep Yet thy spirit shall not sleep; There are shades which will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish...
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Seite 309 - We conceive it to be impossible that any intelligent persons could listen to the lectures, however they might differ from the judgments asserted, and from the general propositions laid down, without an elevating influence and an aroused enthusiasm."— Spectator.
Seite 309 - This book is one which, perhaps, no other man could have written, and one for which the world ought to be and will be thankful. It is in the highest degree eloquent, acute, stimulating to thought, and fertile in suggestion. It...
Seite 148 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Seite 311 - ... To those who attended the lectures, the book will be a pleasant reminiscence, to others an exciting novelty. The style — clear, idiomatic, forcible, familiar, but never slovenly ; the searching strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness , the morality tempered but never weakened by experience and sympathy ; the felicitous phrases, the striking anecdotes, the passages of wise, practical reflection ; all these lose much...