General Aims of the Teacher, and Form Management: Two Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge in the Lent Term, 1883

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The University Press, 1883 - School discipline - 65 pages
 

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Page 14 - From Paul's I went, to Eton sent, To learn straightways the Latin phrase, Where fifty-three stripes given to me At once I had. " For fault but small, or none at all, It came to pass thus beat I was; See Udal,* see the mercy of thee To me poor lad.
Page 1 - Herodotus, Book V. By ES SHUCKBURGH, MA 3*. Book VI. By the same Editor. 4*.
Page 14 - I was flogged every day of my life at school except one, and then I was flogged twice." If the Teachers' Syndicate had existed in old days, one hopes that such a system would long ago have received its death-blow. And here let me give my deliberate testimony, from six...
Page 8 - That picture," said Turner, pointing to a mezzotint of Vandervelde, which he had seen as a boy, "made me a painter." Mr Ruskin attributes his art impulses, in no small measure, to his tracing out the patterns of the carpet, when, as a little boy, he had no toys to amuse him. Darwin tells us how the engraving of a tropic scene in one of his books, as a child, ultimately culminated in his accompanying, as a naturalist, the voyage of the Beagle. When we visit Rugby, they show us Arnold's table, with...
Page 24 - What I am now telling you is, I believe, entirely new and most important. It has cost me very long and toilsome research to discover it. And, exactly at this point, I observe that not a single person in the room is paying me the smallest attention.
Page 7 - Colossians and Philemon. By Rev. HCG MOULE, MA Epistles to Timothy & Titus. By Rev. AE HUMPHREYS, MA Book of Revelation.
Page 6 - The modesty of the general title of this series has, we believe, led many to misunderstand its character and underrate its value. The books are well suited for study in the upper forms of our best schools, but not the less are they adapted to the wants of all Bible students who are not specialists. We doubt, indeed, whether any of the numerous...

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