School Days at RugbyTicknor and Fields, 1860 - 405 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... carried away as to forget that preaching is his object . A black soldier , in a West Indian regiment , tied up to receive a couple of dozen , for drunkenness , cried out to his captain , who was exhorting him to sobriety in future , 66 ...
... carried away as to forget that preaching is his object . A black soldier , in a West Indian regiment , tied up to receive a couple of dozen , for drunkenness , cried out to his captain , who was exhorting him to sobriety in future , 66 ...
Pagina 10
... carried their lives in their hands ; getting hard knocks and hard work in plenty , which was on the whole what they looked for , and the best thing for them , and little praise or pudding , which indeed they , and most of us , are ...
... carried their lives in their hands ; getting hard knocks and hard work in plenty , which was on the whole what they looked for , and the best thing for them , and little praise or pudding , which indeed they , and most of us , are ...
Pagina 11
... carrying no lumber . Then for clanship , they are as bad as Highlanders ; it is amaz- ing the belief they have in one another . With them there is nothing like the Browns , to the third and fourth generation . " Blood is thicker than ...
... carrying no lumber . Then for clanship , they are as bad as Highlanders ; it is amaz- ing the belief they have in one another . With them there is nothing like the Browns , to the third and fourth generation . " Blood is thicker than ...
Pagina 16
... carried away Alfred's Hill to make an embankment . But to return to the said Vale of White Horse , the country in which the first scenes of this true and interesting story are laid . As I said , the Great Western now runs right through ...
... carried away Alfred's Hill to make an embankment . But to return to the said Vale of White Horse , the country in which the first scenes of this true and interesting story are laid . As I said , the Great Western now runs right through ...
Pagina 27
... carried out . If it be not for this , why is it that none of us can be well at home for a year together ? It wasn't so twenty years ago , - not a bit of it . The Browns didn't go out of the county once in five years . A visit to Reading ...
... carried out . If it be not for this , why is it that none of us can be well at home for a year together ? It wasn't so twenty years ago , - not a bit of it . The Browns didn't go out of the county once in five years . A visit to Reading ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
ain't amongst Arthur backswording ball BATTLE OF ASHDOWN beat em began Benjy big boys BLOWING STONE Brown bullying called calling-over catch cheers close coach comes cricket Diggs Doctor door Dunchurch East East's eyes fags farmer feel fellow fifth-form fight fire Flashman football give goal guard half half-year hall hand head heart hoora horses keep kick legs lesson look lower-fourth Martin master match miles mind minute morning never night old boy old Brooke Pig and Whistle play players-up poor præpostor pull rest round Rugby rush school-house boys scrummage shouts side sixth-form boy small boys soon sort Squire stand stop supper Tadpole talk tell there's thing thought Tom Brown Tom's turn Vale village walked White Horse Hill whole Willum young Brooke
Populaire passages
Pagina 331 - In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
Pagina 364 - But O blithe breeze! and O great seas, Though ne'er, that earliest parting past, On your wide plain they join again, Together lead them home at last. One port, methought. alike they sought, One purpose hold where'er they fare, — O bounding breeze. O rushing seas! At last, at last, unite them there!
Pagina 227 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Pagina 342 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Pagina 152 - ... command, and, let who would yield or make truce, would fight the fight out (so every boy felt) to the last gasp and the last drop of blood. Other sides of his character might take hold of and influence boys here and there, but it was this thoroughness and undaunted courage which, more than anything else, won his way to the hearts of the great mass of those on whom he left his mark, and made them believe first in him, and then in his Master.
Pagina 335 - And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Pagina 78 - Shall I tell him to mind his work, and say he's sent to school to make himself a good scholar ? Well, but he isn't sent to school for that — at any rate, not for that mainly. I don't care a straw for Greek particles, or the digamma ; no more does his mother. What is he sent to school for ? The
Pagina 375 - the birthright of British boys old and young, as habeas corpus and trial by jury are of British men." "The discipline and reliance on one another which it teaches is so valuable, I think," went on the master, " it ought to be such an unselfish game.
Pagina 335 - And they went every one straight forward : whither the spirit was to go, they went ; and they turned not when they went.
Pagina 278 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...