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... even an Arnold could scarcely have drilled or preached a thousand boys into uniformity . My tutor's pupils , ' or ' my dame's house , ' are phrases which indicate some bond of union , if not some note 16 Our Public Schools .
... even an Arnold could scarcely have drilled or preached a thousand boys into uniformity . My tutor's pupils , ' or ' my dame's house , ' are phrases which indicate some bond of union , if not some note 16 Our Public Schools .
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indicate some bond of union , if not some note of character , but that boy must be strangely touched by the modern devotion to Humanity ( with a big H ) who would feel much drawn to another merely because they are both component parts ...
indicate some bond of union , if not some note of character , but that boy must be strangely touched by the modern devotion to Humanity ( with a big H ) who would feel much drawn to another merely because they are both component parts ...
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... notes to Mr. Thackeray's rather meagre Latin Anthology . The original is an ex- tract from Lucan's Pharsalia , ' describing the Apotheosis of Pompey ; it consists , in spite of some obscurity , of very noble lines , and the English ...
... notes to Mr. Thackeray's rather meagre Latin Anthology . The original is an ex- tract from Lucan's Pharsalia , ' describing the Apotheosis of Pompey ; it consists , in spite of some obscurity , of very noble lines , and the English ...
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... note particularly the emphatic protest against being considered as a mere appendix to Eton ; ' and from this time on we can trace ' the conscious- ness of being a great English school ; ' and can understand that the remainder of that ...
... note particularly the emphatic protest against being considered as a mere appendix to Eton ; ' and from this time on we can trace ' the conscious- ness of being a great English school ; ' and can understand that the remainder of that ...
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... note in connection with the constitution of Harrow is that it is a pure des- potism . Of the head master it may be questioned whether any other potentate exercises over an equal number of human beings an authority so absolute and so ...
... note in connection with the constitution of Harrow is that it is a pure des- potism . Of the head master it may be questioned whether any other potentate exercises over an equal number of human beings an authority so absolute and so ...
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