 | 1903 - 1186 strani
...then the nap takes me. Vol. vi. Chap. i. nrs. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. ibid. There is now less flogging in our great schools than...what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. ibid. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so mnch happiness is prodnced as... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 616 strani
...observed Johnson to Dr. Burney, "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."2 This allowance must be made for a panegyric which was composed by Johnson in his dying hours,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 strani
...the nap takes me. Vol. ri. Chap. i. 177S. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath, j 1,1,1. There is now less flogging in our great schools than...what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. IKJ. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as... | |
 | 1907 - 230 strani
...you make brothers and sisters hate each other." On another occasion the quondam schoolmaster said : " There is now less flogging in our great schools than...what the boys get at one end they lose at the other." When, after the revival of learning, the splendid schools of the Jesuits were founded, the middle course... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 strani
...me.' ' The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. r : — for- : merly, but then less is learned there ; so that what the boys . get at one end they lose at... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - 1904 - 478 strani
...thousand, thousand blessings." —HENRY vm, v. 5. The University and the Law President Woodrow Wilson "There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, — but then less « learned there; so that what the boys get at one end, they lose at the other." — SAMUEL JOHNSON.... | |
 | 1906 - 810 strani
...occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain. BYRON, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. i Flogging. — There is now less flogging in our great schools than...what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. SAMUEL JOHNSON, Life, by Boswell, 1775 Flood. — You may as well go stand upon the beach And bid the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 strani
...Elsewhere he says, ' the writer of an epitaph must not be considered as saying nothing but what is true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated...In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.' (Boswell's Johnson, ed. Hill, ii. 407.) P. 9, 1. 7. These Italian testimonies are printed in the Globe... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 strani
...Johnson approved of this kind of discipline and regretted its disuse. Cf. Boswell, ' Life,' anno 1775. ' There is now less flogging in our great schools than...what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.' Cf. also, on the other side, Herbert Spencer, 'On the Study of Sociology' in the International Scientific... | |
 | 1911 - 440 strani
...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 of Indianapolis had not begun in the early thirties. There... | |
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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... 
