 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 500 страници
...usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment.' The boy did come to preferment, other, most probably, than the master... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 450 страници
...usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said, before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment. This expression made me forget the stripes I had received. In the... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 462 страници
...usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said before me that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment." But "genius" is rarely popular in places of education ; and it is,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 470 страници
...usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said before me that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment." But "genius" is rarely popular in places of education; and it is,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 482 страници
...the usher severely punished me. My master was much hurt at this, and said before me that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to perferment.' But ' genius ' is rarely popular in places of education ; and it... | |
 | J. A. Erskine Stuart - 1892 - 236 страници
...usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said, before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment. This expression made me forget the stripes I had received." This... | |
 | 1893 - 386 страници
...usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said before me that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure that I should come to preferment This expression made me forget the stripes I had received." In... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1902 - 440 страници
...the usher severely punished me. My master was much hurt at this, and said before me that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment." But "genius" is rarely popular in places of education ; and it is,... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1904 - 428 страници
...usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius and he was sure I would come to preferment. This expression made me forget the stripes I had received.' No doubt... | |
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... had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush, in large capital letters, LAU. STERNE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at... 
