 | Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1860 - 510 pages
...did, among six hundred others, and know as little of the very neighbourhood as the world does of him. Perhaps there is not a foundation in the country so...issue 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.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 526 pages
...did, among six hundred others, and know as little of ihe very neighbourhood ns the world does of him. Perhaps there is not a foundation in the country so...boys are to be found in it, who issue 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,... | |
 | Howard Staunton - Education - 1865 - 682 pages
...When he condescended to hit us with the cane, he made a face as if he were taking a dose of physic." " Perhaps there is not a foundation in the country so...wish it to mean— something solid, unpretending, and free to all. More boys are to be found in it who issue from a greater variety of ranks, than in... | |
 | Howard Staunton - Education - 1865 - 622 pages
...When he condescended to hit us with the cane, he made a face as if he were taking a dose of physic." " Perhaps there is not a foundation in the country so...wish it to mean — something solid, unpretending, and free to all. More boys are to be found in it who issue from a greater variety of ranks, than in... | |
 | Howard Staunton - Education - 1869 - 658 pages
...When he condescended to hit us with the cane, he made a face as if he were taking a dose of physic. " Perhaps there is not a foundation in the country so truly English, taking that LAMB;' GEORGE DTEE;* JAMES WHITE ;• JAMES SCHOLI word to mean what Englishmen wish it to mean —... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1870 - 448 pages
...very neighbourhood as the world does of him. . , 4 Perhaps there is not a foundation in the country BO truly English, taking that word to mean what Englishmen...and free to all. More boys are to be found in it, whp issue from a greater variety of ranks, than in any school in the kingdom; and as it is the most... | |
 | 1873 - 796 pages
...almost monastic succession." • Leigh Hunt, another of the eminent pupils of the school, says : " Perhaps there is not a foundation in the country so truly English, taking that word to mean something solid, unpretending, and free to all. More boys are to be found in it who issue from a greater... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 972 pages
...Hospital, and in his autobiography bears just and discriminating testimony to the value of the institution. Perhaps there is not a foundation in the country so...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 do not go there... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1891 - 300 pages
...CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, AND THE CHARACTER OF THE CHRIST'S HOSPITAL BOYS. [Gentleman's Magazine, June, 1813] PERHAPS there is not a foundation in the country so...variety of ranks, than in any other school in the kingdoms and as it is the most various, so it is the largest, of all the free schools .... The boys... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1891 - 470 pages
...did, among six hundred others, and know as little of the very neighbourhood as the world does of him. Perhaps there is not a foundation in the country so...unpretending, of good character, and free to all. Wore boys are to be found in it, who issue from a greater variety of ranks, than in any school in the... | |
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Perhaps there is not a foundation in the country so truly English, taking that word to mean what Englishmen wish it to mean — something solid, unpretending, of good character, and free to all. More boys are to be found in it, who issue from a greater... 
