Great English SchoolsN. Douglas, 1925 - 304 pages |
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Page 73
... Chapel , Windsor . Twenty - five years after its foundation we see , by the Audit Rolls , that Eton's income had steadily increased ; it was then ( 1458 ) £ 1,500 ( £ 40,000 to - day ) . Later , in 1469 , we have the first recorded ...
... Chapel , Windsor . Twenty - five years after its foundation we see , by the Audit Rolls , that Eton's income had steadily increased ; it was then ( 1458 ) £ 1,500 ( £ 40,000 to - day ) . Later , in 1469 , we have the first recorded ...
Page 89
... Chapel on Monday , before noon in the morning , as the Statute directs . After prayers , and sacrament , they began to vote - 22 for George ; 16 for Thackeray ; 10 for Chapman [ the candidates for the office ] . Thus they continued ...
... Chapel on Monday , before noon in the morning , as the Statute directs . After prayers , and sacrament , they began to vote - 22 for George ; 16 for Thackeray ; 10 for Chapman [ the candidates for the office ] . Thus they continued ...
Page 92
... chapel , found one morning on the cushion before him on mounting his pulpit a list of his favourite texts headed : " Which is it to be , Skimmer- Jack ? " Of Keate , the castigator before mentioned , it is said that he was little more ...
... chapel , found one morning on the cushion before him on mounting his pulpit a list of his favourite texts headed : " Which is it to be , Skimmer- Jack ? " Of Keate , the castigator before mentioned , it is said that he was little more ...
Page 110
... whitewash , in the Eton Chapel . Hodgson also removed fine stalls and woodwork , by Christopher Wren , at the same period . Even the Reformation did not " sin , " artistically , so greatly ! " boys of 14 or 15 years old who had IIO.
... whitewash , in the Eton Chapel . Hodgson also removed fine stalls and woodwork , by Christopher Wren , at the same period . Even the Reformation did not " sin , " artistically , so greatly ! " boys of 14 or 15 years old who had IIO.
Page 113
... chapel steps in the great quadrangle , to " address the school on the subject of unemployment . " Of course , it was objected that the majority of Eton boys and their parents do not want to be inoculated with the virus of Socialism ...
... chapel steps in the great quadrangle , to " address the school on the subject of unemployment . " Of course , it was objected that the majority of Eton boys and their parents do not want to be inoculated with the virus of Socialism ...
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Page 169 - This Book of Articles before rehearsed is again approved, and allowed to be holden and executed within the realm, by the assent and consent of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Page 274 - ... water — who might not speak to him; or of the beadle, who came twice a week to call him out to receive his periodical chastisement...
Page 272 - I have been called out of my bed, and waked for the purpose, in the coldest winter nights— and this not once, but night after night— in my shirt, to receive the discipline of a leathern thong, with eleven other sufferers, because it pleased my callow overseer, when there has been any talking heard after we were gone to bed, to make the six last beds in the dormitory, where the youngest children of us slept...
Page 73 - Where the king took displeasure, she would mitigate and appease his mind ; where men were out of favour, she would bring them in his grace...
Page 126 - Parish, so many Foreigners as the whole number may be well taught and applied, and the place can conveniently contain, by the judgment and discretion of the Governors. And of the Foreigners he may take such stipend and wages as he can get, except that they be of the kindred of John Articles Lyon, the Founder.
Page 271 - ... to his father, the coachman. One thing, however, I know to be certain, and it is the noblest of all : namely, that the boys themselves (at least it was so in my time) had no sort of feeling of the difference of one another's ranks out of doors. The cleverest boy was the noblest, let his father be who he might.
Page 277 - The devil is tying a knot in my leg ! Mark, Luke, and John, unloose it, I beg! — Crosses three, &c. And really upon getting out of bed, where the cramp most frequently occurred, pressing the sole of the foot on the cold floor, and then repeating this charm with the acts configurative...
Page 271 - ... with an air of ineffable endurance. Often he did not hear at all. It was a joke with us, when any of our friends came to the door, and we asked his permission to go to them, to address him with some preposterous question wide of the mark ; to which he used to assent. We would say, for instance, " Are you not a great fool, sir?" or, " Isn't your daughter a pretty girl?" to which he would reply,
Page 51 - In the name of the HOLY and UNDIVIDED TRINITY, FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST, one GOD, Blessed for ever.
Page 271 - 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 description, not omitting servants. I would not take my oath — but...