Our Public Schools: Their Influence on English History; Charter House, Eton, Harrow, Merchant Taylors', Rugby, St. Paul's Westminster, WinchesterS. Sonnenschein & Company, limited, 1901 - 462 pages |
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... hands of Henry VIII . roused the indignation of Sir Robert Peel ( the Prime Minister and a Governor of Charterhouse ) , though he was not given to the melting mood . The great Elizabeth was frugal in her expenditure of public money ...
... hands of Henry VIII . roused the indignation of Sir Robert Peel ( the Prime Minister and a Governor of Charterhouse ) , though he was not given to the melting mood . The great Elizabeth was frugal in her expenditure of public money ...
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... hands of the Governors . The link between the Hospital and the School was the Master , who must not be confounded with the Head Master of the School . He was the only Governor who was also an officer of the Institution ; he alone had a ...
... hands of the Governors . The link between the Hospital and the School was the Master , who must not be confounded with the Head Master of the School . He was the only Governor who was also an officer of the Institution ; he alone had a ...
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... hands only his deserts for falling foul of an old schoolfellow , John Dryden , one of the glories of their common school of Westminster . By the Public Schools Act of 1868 the Government of the Hospital was separated from that of the ...
... hands only his deserts for falling foul of an old schoolfellow , John Dryden , one of the glories of their common school of Westminster . By the Public Schools Act of 1868 the Government of the Hospital was separated from that of the ...
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... hand in your exer- cises . Some of the boys , so my informant tells me , got very expert in reading their repetitions upside down , from the book in the hands of the master who heard them . Then came breakfast , when the gown - boys ...
... hand in your exer- cises . Some of the boys , so my informant tells me , got very expert in reading their repetitions upside down , from the book in the hands of the master who heard them . Then came breakfast , when the gown - boys ...
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... hands , if both were in a physical condition to do so . At one of these fights George Stovin Venables ( afterwards a Q.C. ) broke Thackeray's nose , causing permanent disfigurement . Venables became one of the greatest of anonymous ...
... hands , if both were in a physical condition to do so . At one of these fights George Stovin Venables ( afterwards a Q.C. ) broke Thackeray's nose , causing permanent disfigurement . Venables became one of the greatest of anonymous ...
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Page 409 - Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!
Page 19 - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high-embowed roof, With antique pillars...
Page 181 - GOD bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender; But who pretender is, or who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another thing.
Page 73 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny, and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again.
Page 271 - I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.
Page 371 - Sir (addressing himself to the Speaker), I, who rise only to give my opinion on the Bill now depending, am so confounded that I am unable to express the least of what I proposed to say, what must the condition of that man be, who, without any assistance, is pleading for his life, and under apprehension of being deprived of it...
Page 269 - Dr. Busby ! a great man ! he whipped my grandfather ; a very great man ! I should have gone to him myself, if I had not been a blockhead : a very great man !' " We were immediately conducted into the little chapel on the right hand.
Page 138 - My dream was past ; it had no further change. It was of a strange order, that the doom Of these two creatures should be thus traced out Almost like a reality — the one To end in madness — both in misery.
Page 37 - ... to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, " Adsum ! " and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called ; and lo, he. whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master.
Page 34 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided : they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.