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" that the child should be instructed in the arts which will be useful to the man;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster or Eton in total ignorance of the business and conversation of English gentlemen in the latter end of the... "
Lectures on Popular Education: Delivered to the Edinburgh Association for ... - Page 42
by George Combe - 1834 - 130 pages
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...Spartan king, " that the child should be instructed in the arts, which will be useful to the man ;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century. But these schools may assume the merit of teaching all that they pretend to teach, the Latin and Greek...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 38

1807 - 772 pages
...king, ' that the child should be instructed in the arts, which will be useful to the toan ;• since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...conversation of English gentlemen in the latter end ot the eighteenth century. But these schools may assume the merit of teaching all that they pretend...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...Spartan king, " that the child should be instructed in the arts, which will be useful to the man ;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century. But these schools may assume the merit of teaching all that they pretend to teach, the Latin and Greek...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...Spartan king, " that the child should be instructed in the arts which will be useful to the man ;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...ignorance of the business and conversation of English gentlfemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century. But these schools may assume the merit of teaching...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 14

1830 - 336 pages
...Spartan king, " that the child should be instructed in the arts which will be useful to the man ;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century. But these schools may assume the merit of teaching all that they pretend to teach, the Latin and Greek...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...Spartan king, " that the child should be instructed in the arts, which will be useful to the man ;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster or Eton, in total ignorance of the business and conrersation of English gentlemen in the latter end of tlie eighteenth century. But these schools may...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1830 - 488 pages
...written five years after, appears this comment : " Eheu fugaces. Posthume ! Posthume ! Labuntur mini. * " A finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century." — GIBBON. t " Byron, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, Alumnus Schölte Lyoncnsis primus in anno Domini...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 482 pages
...five years after, appears this comment : " Eheu fugaces, Posthume ! Posthume ! Labuntur anni. • " A finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century." — GIBBON. t "Byron, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, Alumnus Scholte Lyoncnsis primus in anno Domini...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 532 pages
...comment: « Eheu fugaces, Poetbume ! Posllmme ! Labuntur anui. * " A finished scholar may emerge from (he head of Westminster or Eton in total ignorance of...gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century." — Gibbon. t * Byron, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, Alumnus Scholœ Lyouensis primus in anno Domini...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 25

1853 - 542 pages
...which a pursuit of scholastic honours requires ; and therefore, as another authority, Gibbon remarks, " A finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster...gentlemen," in the latter end of the eighteenth century. Coolhurst was so impressed with the truth of the above remarks, that he determined to profit by them...
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