 Now and then a boy of a noble family may be met with, and he is reckoned an interloper, and against the charter ; but the sons of poor gentry and London citizens abound; and with them an equal share is given to the sons of tradesmen of the very humblest...  Great English Schools - Page 271by Harold Tom Wilkins - 1925 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 470 pages
...greater variety of ranks, than in any other school hi the kingdom ; and as it is the most various, so it is the largest, of all the free schools. Nobility...there, except as boarders. Now and then, a boy of a poble family may be met with, and he is reckoned an interloper, and against the charter ; but the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1850 - 340 pages
...greater variety of ranks, than in any other school in the kingdom : and as it is the most various, so it is the largest, of all the free schools. Nobility...go there, except as boarders. Now and then a boy of a noble family may be met with, and he is reckoned an interloper, and against the charter ; but the... | |
 | 1851 - 622 pages
...largest of all the free schools. Nobility do not go there, except as boarders. Now and then a boy of family may be met with, and he is reckoned an interloper...sons of poor gentry and London citizens abound ; and witb them, an equal share is given to the sons of tradesmen of the very humblest description, not omitting... | |
 | 1851 - 612 pages
...greater variety of ranks, than in any other school in the kingdom ; and as it is the most various, so it is the largest of all the free schools. Nobility...go there, except as boarders. Now and then a boy of family may be met with, and he is reckoned an interloper and against the charter ; but the sons of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt - 1860 - 510 pages
...from a greater variety of ranks, than in any school in the kingdom; and as it is the most various, so it is the largest, of all the free schools. Nobility...go there, except as boarders. Now and then a boy of a noble family may be met with, and he is reckoned an interloper, and against the charter ; but the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1860 - 526 pages
...from a greater variuty of ranks, than in any school in the kingdom; and as it is the most various, BO it is the largest, of all the free schools. Nobility...go there, except as boarders. Now and then a boy of a noble family may be met with, and he is reckoned an interloper, and against the charter ; but the... | |
 | Howard Staunton - 1869 - 658 pages
...from a greater variety of ranka, than in any school in the kingdom ; and as it u the most various, so it is the largest of all the Free Schools. Nobility...then a boy of noble family may be met with, and he a reckoned an interloper and against the charter ; but the sons of poor gentry, and London citizens,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 974 pages
...greater variety of ranks, than in any other school in the kingdom: end as it is the most various, so it is the largest, of all the free schools. Nobility...go there except as boarders. Now and then a boy of a noble family may bo met with, and he is reckoned an interloper, and against the charter ; but the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 902 pages
...greater variety of ranks, than in any other school in the kingdom : and as it is the most various, so it is the largest, of all the free schools. Nobility...go there except as boarders. Now and then a boy of a noble family may be met with, and he is reckoned an interloper, and against the charter; but the... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1896 - 360 pages
...greater variety of ranks, than in any other school in the kingdom ; and as it is the most various, so it is the largest, of all the free schools. Nobility...go there, except as boarders. Now and then a boy of a noble family may be met with, and he is reckoned an interloper, and against the charter ; but the... | |
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