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" upon the established system, if an accidental custom may be so called, as a mass of anomalies, the growth of ignorance and chance, equally repugnant to good taste and to common sense. "
A History of Greece - Page xx
by Connop Thirlwall - 1845
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A Plea for Spelling Reform: A Series of Tracts Comp. from the Phonetic ...

Isaac Pitman - Spelling reform - 1878 - 344 pages
...Thirlwall, the eminent historian of Greece, said : " I look upon the established system of spelling, if an accidental custom may be so called, as a mass...ignorance and chance, equally repugnant to good taste and common sense." Lord Lytton, the distinguished statesman and novelist, declared: "A more Ij ing, round-about,...
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A Plea for Spelling Reform: A Series of Tracts Comp. from the Phonetic ...

Isaac Pitman - Spelling reform - 1878 - 354 pages
...attainment. The late Dr Thirlwall, Bishop of St David's. — I look upon the established system of spelling (if an accidental custom may be so called,) as a mass...of ignorance and chance, equally repugnant to good taste-and to common-sense. But I am aware that the public cling to these anomalies with a tenacity...
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Ohio Educational Monthly, Volume 28

Education - 1879 - 480 pages
...illustrious author of the "History of Greece," says: — " I look upon the establisht system of spelling (if an accidental custom may be so called) as a mass...and chance, equally repugnant to good taste and to common-sense. But I am aware that the public cling to these anomalies with a tenacity proportioned...
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Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute ..., Volume 49

American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1879 - 264 pages
...illustrious author of the " History of Greece," says : — " I look upon the establisht system of spelling (if an accidental custom may be so called) as a mass...and chance, equally repugnant to good taste and to common-sense. But I am aware that the public cling to these anomalies with a tenacity proportioned...
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Sensible spelling [as adopted by The Home journal] opinions of educators ...

Sensible spelling - 1880 - 64 pages
...examiner at the Unicersitics of Cambridge and London. I look upon the established system of spelling (if an accidental custom may be so called) as a mass...ignorance and chance, equally repugnant to good taste and common sense. Lord Lytton, XocelM, dramatist, poet. A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed delusion...
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Annual Report of the Vermont Board of Education, with the Report of the ...

Vermont. Dept. of Education - 1880 - 216 pages
...Greece, forcibly says : " I look upon the established system of spelling (if accidental custom can be so called) as a mass of anomalies ; the growth...ignorance and chance, equally repugnant to good taste and good sense." The lato Lord Lytton expressed his views thus plainly : " A more lying, round about, puzzie-headed...
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The King's English: Part I.--Its Sources and History. Part II.--Origin and ...

George Washington Moon - English language - 1881 - 200 pages
...late Dr. Thirlwall, Bishop of St. David's, says, " I look upon the established system of spell"ing, if an accidental custom may be so called, " as a mass...repugnant to good taste and "to common sense. But I am aware that the "public cling to these anomalies with a tenacity " proportioned to their absurdity,...
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Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education, Volume 40

1881 - 650 pages
...St. Davids, the learned Dr Thirlwall, exclaim: — "I look upon the established system of spelling as a mass of anomalies, the growth of ignorance and chance, equally repugnant to good taste and common sense." And well might Sir Chos. Trevelyan say : — " The English system of spelling ( I protest...
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The Life and Correspondence of the Reverend John Clowes, M.A., ...

Theodore Compton - 1882 - 246 pages
...of national education?" — Profmor Ifox Uiiller. " I look upon the established system of spelling (if an accidental custom may be so called), as a mass...equally repugnant to good taste and to common sense. But I am aware that the public cling to these anomalies with a tenacity proportioned to their absurdity,...
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Journal of Social Science: Containing the Transactions of the ..., Issues 16-20

Social sciences - 1882 - 1096 pages
...establish! system of spelling (if an accidental custom may be so called) as a mass of anomalies, the fruit of ignorance and chance, equally repugnant to good taste and to common sense." But let not the fact that we have become callous to the yoke prevent us from looking at the facts. EVILS....
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