Juvenile Anecdotes, Founded on Facts: Collected for the Amusement of ChildrenDarton and Harvey, 1808 |
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Página 87 - that there is the awful name which I dare not repeat; and my mamma used always to draw a line through those words which she did not choose we should say." The master was so struck that he adopted this practice in all his schoolwork. The doctrine is exactly that of George Fox. I have traced over sixty editions of twelve of Mrs Wakefield's books between 1795 and 1818. She was the wife of "an eminent merchant in flourishing circumstances...
Página 83 - ... by freely cutting out as many leaves as contained passages likely to give them false ideas, or to corrupt their innocence.
Página 14 - I scorn to tell tales for my own sake, however ill-used I may be ; but now I suffer in defence of my friend, and for the gratitude I owe to my benefactors, Mr. and Mrs. Milton ; therefore, you may beat me as much, and as long as you please.
Página 89 - It would be difficult to say which of the two was the most severely vexed — the vain and irritable poetaster or the dreaming blunderer.
Página 13 - DanTers, perceiving that his oppressor used him excessively ill, by beating, kicking, and shoving him about, enquired what was the cause of such treatment. 'What is that to you?' replied Fletcher ; ' mind your own business, or I will presently teach you the consequences of interfering in what does not concern you.