 ... it is certainly a good, rather than an evil. If, on the contrary, there exists in these places of education a system of premature debauchery, and if they only prevent men from being corrupted by the world, by corrupting them before their entry into...  Letters from Hofwyl - Page 7by Mrs. Barwell (Louisa Mary) - 1842 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1811 - 456 pages
...ill-formed propensities; and this neglect is before their entry into the world, they can then only be looked upon as evils of the greatest magnitude,...may be sanctioned by opinion, or rendered familiar to us by habit. The vital and essential part of y school, is the master; but, at a publick school,... | |
 | 1812 - 470 pages
...being corrupted Vy the v.-orW, by corrupting them before their entry into the world, they can then only be looked upon as evils of the greatest magnitude,...may be sanctioned by opinion, or rendered familiar to us by habit. The vital and essential part of a school, is the master; but, at a publick school,... | |
 | William Vincent - Education - 1817 - 236 pages
...being corrupted by the world, by corrupting them before their entry into the world, they ran then only be looked upon as evils of the greatest magnitude,...may be sanctioned by opinion, or rendered familiar to us by habit. . The vital and essential part of a school, is the master ; but, at a public school,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1839 - 464 pages
...being corrupted by the world, by corrupting them before their entry into the world, they can then only be looked upon as evils of the greatest magnitude,...may be sanctioned by opinion, or rendered familiar to us by habit. The vital and essential part of a school, is the master ; but, at a public school,... | |
 | Mrs. Barwell (Louisa Mary) - Education - 1842 - 392 pages
...these places of education a system of premature debauchery, and if they only prevent men from heing corrupted by the world, by corrupting them before...general cultivation of the faculties with which we are gifted adds to our happiness as well as our usefulness. I do not undervalue classical attainments,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 424 pages
...being corrupted by the world, by corrupting them before their entry into the world, they can then only be looked upon as evils of the greatest magnitude,...may be sanctioned by opinion, or rendered familiar to us by habit. The vital and essential part of a school is the master ; but, at a public school, no... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pages
...being corrupted by the world, by corrupting them before their entry into the world, they can then only be looked upon as evils of the greatest magnitude,...may be sanctioned by opinion, or rendered familiar to us by habit. The vital and essential part of a school is the master; but, at a public school, no... | |
 | India - 1847 - 1262 pages
...Rev. Sidney Smith himself, by no means a wholesale or rash reformer, has characterized these schools as " evils of the greatest magnitude, however they...sanctioned by opinion or rendered familiar by habit."* But why is this the case ? Why, but that the common fallacy ia still prevalent in England, of supposing... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 498 pages
...being corrupted by the world- by corrupting them before their entry into the world, thry can then only be looked upon as evils of the greatest magnitude, however they may be satictioncd by opinion, or rendered familiar to us by habit. The vital and essentinl part of a school... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - English essays - 1854 - 296 pages
...being corrupted by the world, by corrupting them before their entry into the world, they can then only be looked upon as evils of the greatest magnitude,...may be sanctioned by opinion, or rendered familiar to us by habit. The vital and essential part of a school is the master; but, at a public school, no... | |
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