| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 600 pages
...and which you may depend upon as real truth. ' Every one, who is acquainted with Westminsterschool, knows that there is a curtain which used to be drawn...above-mentioned curtain. The severity of the master* was too well known for the criminal to expect any pardon for such a fault ; so that the boy, who was of a meek... | |
| 1803 - 372 pages
...very ' well known to several persons, and which you may ' depend upon as real truth. ' livery one, who is acquainted with Westminster ' school, knows that...above-mentioned curtain : ' the severity of the master wg.s. too well known fop ' the criminal to expect any pardon for such a fault ; ' so that the boy,... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...story very we)l known to several persons, and which you may depend upon as real truth. ' Every one who is acquainted with Westminster school knows that there...abovementioned Curtain. The severity of the master was too well known for the crirniwal to expect any pardon for such a fault ; so that the boy, who was of a... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 398 pages
...story very well known to several persons, and which you may depend upon as real truth. ' Every one, who is acquainted with Westminster. school, knows that...above-mentioned curtain. The severity of the master* was too well known for the criminal to expect any pardon for such a fault ; so that the boy, who was of a meek... | |
| 1808 - 306 pages
...known to several persons, and which may he depended upon as real troth. Every one who is acqnainted with Westminster school, knows that there is a curtain which used to he drawn across the room, to separate the upper school from the lower. A youth happened hy some mischance... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...story very well known to several persons, and which you may depend upon as real truth. ' Every one, who is acquainted with Westminster school, knows that...above-mentioned curtain. The severity of the master* was too well known for the criminal to expect any pardon for such a fault ; so that the boy, who was of a meek... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 pages
...very well known to several persons, and which you may depend upon as a real truth." " Every one who is acquainted with Westminster school knows that there...above-mentioned curtain: the severity of the master was too well known for the criminal to expect any pardon for sucli a fault ; so that the boy, who was of a... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...his people. Addison. STORY OP A WEITMINISTER BOY. EVERY one who is acquainted with Westminsterschool knows, that there is a curtain which used to be drawn...above-mentioned curtain. The severity of the master was too well known for the criminal to expect any pardon for such a fault ; so that tiie boy, who was of a... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...truth. « Every one who is acquainted with « Westminster school, knows that there is « a curtain winch used to be drawn across « the room , to separate the upper school « fiom the lower. A youth happened by some « mischance , to tear the .above-mentioned « curtain... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...and which you may depend upon as real truth. ' Every one, who is acquainted with Westminsterschool, knows that there is a curtain which 'used to be drawn...above-mentioned curtain. The severity of the master* was too well known for the criminal to expect any pardon for such a fault ; so that the boy, who was of a meek... | |
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