 | George Huddesford - 1801 - 196 páginas
...sophisticated. ^ What lad of spirit cares a groat, How Diomed and Ajax fought, * The late Dr. Samuel Johnson. " There is now less flogging in our great schools than...but then less is learned there : so that what the boy» get at ONE END they lose at THE OTHER." Boswell, Life ofJohnson, 8vo, Pol, 11, p, 285. •f-... | |
 | George Huddesford - 1801 - 346 páginas
...sophisticated, f What lad of spirit cares a groat, How Diomed and Ajax fought, * The late Dr. Samuel Johnson. " There is now less flogging in our great schools than...formerly, but then less is learned there: so that what theboyi get at ONE END they lose at THE OTHER." Boswell, Life of Johnson, Svo. Vol. 11. p. 285. f Nunc... | |
 | George Huddesford - 1801 - 198 páginas
...sophisticated. f What lad of spirit cares a groat, How Diomed and Ajax fought, * The late Dr. Samuel Johnson. " There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is leamed there: so that what the boyi get at ONE END they lose at THE OTHER." Boswell, Life of Johnson,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 páginas
...favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them. At another time he said, " There is now less flogging in our great schools than...that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."—Yet more, he observed, was learned in publick than in private schools, from emulation; "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 páginas
...writer of an epitaph (he observed) should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated...In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath." At another time, when somebody endeavoured to argue in favour of the Epitaph for Goldsmith's tablet... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 páginas
...true. Allowance must be made for »ome degree of exaggerated praise. In lapidary inscriptions a man i« not upon oath." "There is now less flogging in our...formerly, but then less is learned there ; so that vha the boys get ut one end they lose •t the other." 41 More is learned in public than in private... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 páginas
...writer of an epitaph (he observed) should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated...In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath." At another time, when somebody endeavoured to argue in favour of the Epitaph for Goldsmith's tablet... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 372 páginas
...varied, " Rod, I will honour thee for this thy duty." At a subsequent period, be observed to Dr. Rose, " There is now less flogging in our great schools than...what the boys get at one end they lose at the other." He thus discriminated, to Dr. Percy, bishop of Dromore, his progress at his two grammar schools : "... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 382 páginas
...this thy duty." At a subsequent period, he observed to Dr. Rose, " There is now less flogging in out great schools than formerly, but then less is learned...what the boys get at one end they lose at the other." He thus discriminated, to Dr. Percy, bishop of Dromore, his progress at his two grammar schools : "... | |
 | 1821 - 372 páginas
...varied, " Rod, I will honour thee for this thy duty." At a subseqnent period, he observed to Dr. Rose, " There is now less flogging in our great schools than...what the boys get at one end they lose at the other." He thus discriminated, to Dr. Percy, bishop of Dromore, his progress at his two grammar schools : "... | |
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The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated praise. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath... 
