Memories Grave and Gay: Forty Years of School InspectionW. Blackwood and sons, 1902 - 356 páginas |
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... story - books ; and when I see them gettin ' tired o ' their lessons , and beginning to tak ' a look about the house , I bid them put by their ' collections , ' and tak ' their pamphlets and story - books . Ye ken , bairns maun like ...
... story - books ; and when I see them gettin ' tired o ' their lessons , and beginning to tak ' a look about the house , I bid them put by their ' collections , ' and tak ' their pamphlets and story - books . Ye ken , bairns maun like ...
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... retrospect of the last half century . He told me , in his simple , unaffected Doric , the history of some of his pupils , keeping himself in the background , except where H his coming forward was necessary either to complete the story.
... retrospect of the last half century . He told me , in his simple , unaffected Doric , the history of some of his pupils , keeping himself in the background , except where H his coming forward was necessary either to complete the story.
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... story or put in a stronger light the good qualities of some of his old scholars . He paused now and then , sometimes with his hands on his knees and his head slightly lowered , sometimes with his head a little to one side and his eye ...
... story or put in a stronger light the good qualities of some of his old scholars . He paused now and then , sometimes with his hands on his knees and his head slightly lowered , sometimes with his head a little to one side and his eye ...
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... story that it is probably for- gotten by all but Smith's intimate friends , but it is perhaps worthy of repetition . I quote from memory , but remember enough of it to give a fairly correct notion of its general scope : — " We find in ...
... story that it is probably for- gotten by all but Smith's intimate friends , but it is perhaps worthy of repetition . I quote from memory , but remember enough of it to give a fairly correct notion of its general scope : — " We find in ...
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... story is not credible . The man who has taken twenty- four tumblers is not fit to give evidence . " I need not say that I found effective reply impossible , and that we all admired the quickness and logic with which he knocked the ...
... story is not credible . The man who has taken twenty- four tumblers is not fit to give evidence . " I need not say that I found effective reply impossible , and that we all admired the quickness and logic with which he knocked the ...
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