 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 972 pages
...free schools. Nobility do not 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...servants. I would not take my oath, — but I have a strong recollection, that in my time there were two boys, one of whom went up into the drawing-room... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1891 - 470 pages
...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 kingdom; and as it is the most various,...servants. I would not take my oath — but I have a strong recollection, that in my time there were two boys, one of whom went up into the drawing-room... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Education - 1896 - 364 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...servants. I would not take my oath — but I have a strong recollection, that in my time there were two boys, one of whom went up into the drawing-room... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Education - 1896 - 360 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...description, not omitting servants. I would not take my oath—but I have a strong recollection, that in my time there were two boys, one of whom went up into... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1903 - 322 pages
...the pick and mattock of the housebreaker, the school having removed early in the year to Horsham.] most various, so it is the largest, of all the free...servants. I would not take my oath — but I have a strong recollection, that in my time there were two boys, one of whom went up into the drawing-room... | |
 | Harold Tom Wilkins - Endowed public schools (Great Britain) - 1925 - 328 pages
...largest of all the Free Schools. Nobility do not go there except as boarders. Now and then a boy of noble family may be met with, and he is reckoned an...description, not omitting servants. I would not take my oath—but I have a strong recollection, that in my time there were two boys, one of whom went up into... | |
 | Kenneth Lindsay - Education - 1926 - 244 pages
...free grammar school to all who came. Leigh Hunt wrote of Christ's Hospital: " Now and then a boy of noble family may be met with, and he is reckoned an...the sons of poor gentry and London citizens abound ; in my time there were two boys, one of whom went up to the drawing-room to his father, the master... | |
 | Art - 1850 - 632 pages
...boy of a noble family may be met with, and he is reckoned an interloper, and against the charier ; but the sons of poor gentry and London citizens abound ; and with them, an equal share is given to the eons of tradesmen of the very humblest description, not omitting servants. I would not take my oath,... | |
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... school in the kingdom ; and as it is the most various, so it is the largest, of all the free schools. Nobility do not *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... 
