 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 pages
...occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. "I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make...mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other." When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 pages
...expressed his approbation ' of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. "I would rather (said he) have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make...mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other." After having resided for some time at the house of his uncle, Cornelius Ford, Johnson was, at the age... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. "I would rather (said he) .0 . That superiority over his fellows, which he maintained with so much dignity in his march through life,... | |
 | Colin Bingham - 2006 - 428 pages
...recite Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard so that their individual performances could be compared. By exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority,...lasting mischief: you make brothers and sisters hate eachother- SAMUEL JOHNSON You know my opinion is that the boys should be much abroad in the air at... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 pages
...instruction by means of the rod. " I would rather (said he) have the rod to be the general terrour to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if...mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other." When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their... | |
 | 1850 - 838 pages
...terminates in itself; a child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task and there is an end on it ; whereas by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority,...mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other." But with the same right that Johnson in another passage of his conversation, and Goldsmith also, who... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1896 - 1216 pages
...which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped and gets his task, and there's au cud on't. Whereas by exciting emulation and comparisons...superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you mako brothers and sisters hate each other.'" ' In our community rewards for welldoing other than the... | |
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Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. "I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more... 
