 believe anything. It may be so ; still I doubt whether even such objects would justify such means. Lord Lytton says : ' A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system...  The Popular Science Monthly - Sayfa 6251885Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1848 - 794 sayfa
...instruction : that which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction, of SPELLING-BOOKS : "A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion...CONFUSE the clear instincts of truth in our accursed systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1849 - 352 sayfa
...instruction: that which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING-BOOKS: "A more lying, roundabout, puzzleheaded delusion than...CONFUSE the clear instincts of truth in our accursed systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1849 - 348 sayfa
...instruction : that which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING-BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...CONFUSE the clear instincts of truth in our accursed systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1854 - 366 sayfa
...that marthat which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...CONFUSE the clear instincts of truth in our accursed systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this... | |
 | 1885 - 626 sayfa
...How Spelling Damages the Mind " is a forcible and suggestive illustration of Lord Lytton's saying: "A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion...spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Other very interesting papers are "Insect Fertilization of Flowers," "Origin of Man and the other Vertebrates,"... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1862 - 368 sayfa
...a great many learned works against every noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we CONFUSE the clear instituís of truth in our accursed systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood."... | |
 | George Withers (advocate of spelling reform.) - 1874 - 104 sayfa
...us ? There is truth as well as satire in the remark of Sir Bulwer Lytton, in " The Caxtons," when he says : " A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed...spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood. . . . How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1874 - 530 sayfa
...instruction: that which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such •was the exordium of this famous treatise. " For instance, take the monosyllable CAT. What a... | |
 | 1876 - 338 sayfa
...its root sense, can hardly be considered an element of Victorian English. Indeed, as Lord Lytton well says, "A more lying, round-about, puzzleheaded delusion...the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system oí spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood. How can a system of education flourish... | |
 | 1877 - 468 sayfa
...of ignorance and chance, equally repugnant good taste and common sense." Lord Lytton declared :—" A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood. How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of... | |
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