 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 398 strani
...: " The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated...In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.'' Is he upon oath in relating an anecdote ? or could he do more than swear to the best of his recollection... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 strani
...Elsewhere he says, ' the writer of an epitaph mxist not be considered as saying nothing but what is trne. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated...praise. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath ' " ... (Firth). P. 7, 1. 1. are ... too ... topicks, treat of common subjects in too elaborate and... | |
 | William Winter - 1893 - 388 strani
...epitaphs: "The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated...In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath." Morris, William Twaits, Luke Usher, William Warren, Warrell, William B. Wood, Mrs. Downie, Mrs. Durang,... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1896 - 580 strani
...authorities, however, held a less humane opinion. Johnson, who had himself been a schoolmaster, said ' There is now less flogging in our great schools than...what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.' (Hill's Boswell, 1887, ii. 407.) He attributed his own knowledge of the classics to the persistent... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 450 strani
...his day on this subject. Dr. Johnson thought that a diminution of flogging involved less learning, ' so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.' N°- 158. Friday, August 31, 1711 [STEELE. o Xos haec novimus esse nihil. — M*RTIAL, xiii. 2. UT... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 452 strani
...his day on this subject. Dr. Johnson thought that a diminution of flogging involved less learning, ' so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.' Na 158. Friday, August 31, 1711 [STEELE. o Nos hcec novimus esse nihil. — MARTIAL, xiii. 2. UT of... | |
 | Arthur Francis Leach - 1899 - 674 strani
...the Winchester record to-day, he is still of the opinion, aimed at Dr. Warton in his own days, that " there is now less flogging in our great schools than...then less is learned there; so that what the boys gain at one end they lose at the other." Thanks also to the Second-master, the Rev. G. Richardson,... | |
 | 1899 - 628 strani
...writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true ; but that allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated...praise. " In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon his oath." Even previous to Puritan times, and following immediately upon the suppression of monasteries,... | |
 | Arthur Francis Leach - 1899 - 678 strani
...record to-day, he is still of the opinion, aimed at Dr. Warton in his own days, that "there is now Jess flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys gain at one end they lose at the other." Thanks also to the Second-master, the Rev. G. Richardson,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 strani
...me." " The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. eady help was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pourd...die.* No summons mock'd by chill delay, No petty ga pur great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end... | |
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The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated praise. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath... 
