 | English literature - 1789 - 688 pages
...Eton, and a great deal of vulgar Holing, make our young men a ftrange mixture or pedantifcn and »ice, which can only produce impudence and folly — Thus...tutored, at fixteen they are turned upon the hands of fotne unhappy man, who is to prefem tbtm at foreign courts, with no other improvement or alteration... | |
 | 716 pages
...be found — I low fliould it be otherwife ? A little Latin and Greek in the fchools of Wcftminflcr and Eton, and a great deal of vulgar rioting, make our young men a ftrange mixture of pcdantifm and vice, which can onlyproducc impudence and folly — Thus tutored, at fixtecn they are... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1789 - 742 pages
...to be found— How ftiould it be otherwife .- A little Latin and Greek in the fchools of Weftminfter and Eton, and a great deal of vulgar rioting, make our young men • What are men, my Lady ? a ftrange a ftrange mixture of pedantifm and vice, which can only produce... | |
 | 1789 - 746 pages
...to be found-— How (hould it be otherwife IA little Latin and Greek in the Ichools of Weftminllcr and Eton, and a great deal of vulgar rioting, make our young men • Wha: are men, my Lady Í a flrange a dränge mixture of pedantifm and vice, which can only producé... | |
 | Carolyn A. Barros, Johanna M. Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 438 pages
...found. How should it be otherwise? A little Latin and Greek acquired in the schools of Westminster and Eton, and a great deal of vulgar rioting, make our young men a strange compound of pedantry and vice, which can only produce impudence and folly. Thus tutored, at... | |
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Thus tutored, at fixteen they are turned upon the hands of fome unhappy man, who is to prefent them at foreign courts, with no other improvement or alteration in the boys heads, than that of their hair being powdered and tied behind... 