 | 1924 - 750 páginas
...of lasting mischief. "There is now less flogging in our great schools," he observed in 1775, " but less is learned there, so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other." He assisted Boswell in the defence of the schoolmaster Hastie in the House of Lords, who was accused... | |
 | 1912 - 62 páginas
...one hundred years ago : "There is now less flogging in our schools than formerly, but there is less learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other." The abatement of flogging in the schools 01 Indianapolis had not begun in the early thirties. There... | |
 | 1904 - 842 páginas
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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... 
