 | Jeffrey O'Connell, Thomas E. O'Connell - 2008 - 208 trang
...Johnson's contrapuntal comment on the recent diminution of both beatings and learning in the great schools: "So that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.")26 Many of Holmes's remarks, humorous or otherwise, were aphoristic ("Good intentions are no... | |
 | Jeffrey M. Perl - 2007 - 356 trang
...i995), 7i, where he states: i find -O E ro Ages.61 In the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson opined that "there is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly — but the less is learnt there; so that what the boys get at one end, they lose at the other."64 In the tradition... | |
 | 1920 - 600 trang
...dictated to Boswell combines all the links of the argument into a strong chain. Another time he said : " There is now " less flogging in our great schools...the boys get at one end " they lose at the other." He hated " by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known, as ever... | |
 | 1924 - 750 trang
...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 trang
...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... | |
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