My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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Page 41
... interesting spots , among others , some old hedgerows which had been so undermined in a chalky slope as to form complete overhanging caves , one of which I and two of my companions made our own , and stored it with a few necessaries ...
... interesting spots , among others , some old hedgerows which had been so undermined in a chalky slope as to form complete overhanging caves , one of which I and two of my companions made our own , and stored it with a few necessaries ...
Page 42
... interesting places in the town itself were the castle and the Bluecoat School . The castle was a modern building in the castellated style , but it stood in spacious grounds of about four acres near the middle of the town , with the ...
... interesting places in the town itself were the castle and the Bluecoat School . The castle was a modern building in the castellated style , but it stood in spacious grounds of about four acres near the middle of the town , with the ...
Page 51
... interesting , he would help us on wherever we hesitated or blundered , and when we had got through the lesson , he would make a few remarks on the subject , and say , " Now I will read you the whole incident . " He would then take out a ...
... interesting , he would help us on wherever we hesitated or blundered , and when we had got through the lesson , he would make a few remarks on the subject , and say , " Now I will read you the whole incident . " He would then take out a ...
Page 54
... interesting . It consisted almost entirely in learning by heart the names of the chief towns , rivers , and mountains of the various countries from , I think , Pinnock's " School Geography , " which gave the minimum of useful or interesting ...
... interesting . It consisted almost entirely in learning by heart the names of the chief towns , rivers , and mountains of the various countries from , I think , Pinnock's " School Geography , " which gave the minimum of useful or interesting ...
Page 58
... interesting teaching of mechanics , but that again was quite beyond the range of the ordinary school- master of the early part of the nineteenth century . During my last year's residence at Hertford an arrange- ment was made by which ...
... interesting teaching of mechanics , but that again was quite beyond the range of the ordinary school- master of the early part of the nineteenth century . During my last year's residence at Hertford an arrange- ment was made by which ...
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