School Days at RugbyTicknor and Fields, 1860 - 405 pagina's |
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... turn a timid boy into a bold one . But now we know well enough that is not true . Gradually training a timid child to do bold acts , would be most desirable ; but frightening him and ill - treating him will not make him courageous ...
... turn a timid boy into a bold one . But now we know well enough that is not true . Gradually training a timid child to do bold acts , would be most desirable ; but frightening him and ill - treating him will not make him courageous ...
Pagina 10
... many noble families . But the world goes on its way , and the wheel turns , and the wrongs of the Browns , like other wrongs , seem in a fair way to get righted . And this present writer hav- - THE BROWN CHARACTER . 11 ing for many years ...
... many noble families . But the world goes on its way , and the wheel turns , and the wrongs of the Browns , like other wrongs , seem in a fair way to get righted . And this present writer hav- - THE BROWN CHARACTER . 11 ing for many years ...
Pagina 12
... turns up , and their minds are wonderfully an- tagonist , and all their opinions are downright beliefs . Till you've ... turn for combativeness , makes them eminently quixotic . They can't let any thing alone which they think going wrong ...
... turns up , and their minds are wonderfully an- tagonist , and all their opinions are downright beliefs . Till you've ... turn for combativeness , makes them eminently quixotic . They can't let any thing alone which they think going wrong ...
Pagina 13
... turn out bad , and cheat them one week , and the next they are doing the same things for Jack ; and when he goes to the tread - mill , and his wife and children to the workhouse , they will be on the look - out for Bill to take his ...
... turn out bad , and cheat them one week , and the next they are doing the same things for Jack ; and when he goes to the tread - mill , and his wife and children to the workhouse , they will be on the look - out for Bill to take his ...
Pagina 14
... turn the steam off , and lie on your backs in the paternal garden , surrounded by the last batch of books from Mudie's library , and half bored to death . Well , well ! I know it has its good side . You all patter French more or less ...
... turn the steam off , and lie on your backs in the paternal garden , surrounded by the last batch of books from Mudie's library , and half bored to death . Well , well ! I know it has its good side . You all patter French more or less ...
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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
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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...