 | Thomas Cox - Education, Elementary - 1879 - 268 pages
...schoolmaster. " He had the cieling of the schoolroom new whitewash'd : "the ladder remained there. I one unlucky day mounted "it, and wrote with a brush,...effaced, for I was a boy " of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment : "this expression made me forget the stripes I had received. " In the year... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 404 pages
...schoohnnster) 1 i.-id the ceiling of the schoolroom new whitewashed ; the ladder remained there ; I one unlucky day mounted it, and wrote with a brush...never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genins, and he was sure that I should come to preferment. This expression made me forget the stripes... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1879 - 488 pages
...schoolmaster,' he says, ' had the ceiling of the schoolroom new whitewashed : the ladder remained there. I one unlucky day mounted it, and wrote with a brush in large capitals LAIT. STERNE, for which the usher severely punished me. My master was much hurt at this, and... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 450 pages
...schoolmaster : — He had the ceiling of the schoolroom new white-washed; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush,...effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment. This expression made me forget the stripes I had received. In the year thirty-two... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1882 - 500 pages
...at Halifax. ' He had the ceiling of the schoolroom new whitewashed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush, in large capital letters, LAU STEEXE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said before... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - France - 1882 - 448 pages
...schoolmaster : — He had the ceiling of the schoolroom new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush, in large capital letters, LAU. STERNEy for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said, before... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 206 pages
...The schoolmaster "had the ceiling of the schoolroomnew-whitewashed, and the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush in large capital letters, LAU. STEENE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said before... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...schoolmaster — He had had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed— the ladder remained there — I one unlucky day mounted it, and wrote with a brush...effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment— this express made me forget the stripes I had received — In the year... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - Clergy - 1886 - 262 pages
...schoolmaster : — he had the ceiling of the school-room new whitewashed ; the ladder remained there : I one unlucky day mounted it, and wrote with a brush,...effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure that I should come to preferment. — This expression made me forget the stripes I had received.—... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1887 - 674 pages
...schoolmaster : — lie had the ceiling of the schoolroom new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush,...which the usher severely whipped me. My master was verymuch hurt at this, and said, before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy... | |
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Halifax till about the latter end of that year, and cannot omit mentioning this anecdote of myself and schoolmaster : — He had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with... 
