 | 1857 - 594 sayfa
...for Greek particles, or the digamma, no more does his mother. What is he sent to school for ? Well partly because he wanted so to go. If he'll only turn...a gentleman, and a Christian, that's all I want.' "—P. 80. Without further adventure our hero reaches Rugby and begins his public school life, and... | |
 | 1858 - 428 sayfa
...that—at any rate, not for that mainly. What is he sent to school for? Well, partly because he wanted to go. If he'll only turn out a brave, helpful, truth-telling...a gentleman, and a Christian, that's all I want." many of our teachers try to make their pupils "brave ;" brave in battle against temptation and evil... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1861 - 804 sayfa
...the digamma ; no more does his mother. What is he sent to school for ? Well, partly because he wanted to go. If he'll only turn out a brave, helpful, truthtelling...and a gentleman and a Christian, that's all I want." Only this, Squire Brown ! Would that all were so wise and so. moderate in their desires. But where... | |
 | Present - 1865 - 548 sayfa
...particles, no more does his mother. If he'll only turn out a brave, helpful, truth-telling Englishman — a gentleman and a Christian — that's all I want," thought the squire, and upon this view framed his last words of advice to Tom. Again Mr. Farrar deals with the same subject. The conversation... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1870 - 682 sayfa
...the digamma, no more does his mother. What is he sent to school for ? Well, partly because he wanted to go. If he'll only turn out a brave, helpful, truth-telling...a gentleman, and a Christian, that's all I want." Quite enough too, if wishes were a means to the end ; but supposing Mrs. Brown to have had the same... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1871 - 342 sayfa
...he '11 only turn out a brave, helpful, truth-telling man, and a gentleman, and a Christian, that 's all I want," thought the Squire ; and upon this view of the caJse framed his last words of advice to Tom, which were well enough suited to their purpose. 17. For... | |
 | Robert Brown (F. R. S., Scot.) - 1875 - 824 sayfa
...School-Days," you find a father speaking out his wishes thus regarding his son's school career — "If hell turn out a brave, helpful, truth-telling Englishman, and a gentleman, and a Christian, that is all I want" Without commenting on this, I will just say that the character of the teaching... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1882 - 220 sayfa
...for Greek particles, or the digamma ; no more does his mother. What is he sent to sehool for 1 Well, partly because he wanted so to go. If he'll only turn...helpful, truth-telling Englishman, and a gentleman, four bays plunge at the eollar, and away goes the Tally-ho into the darkness, forty-five seconds from... | |
 | 1882 - 596 sayfa
...sending their sons to school. 'Squire Brown declared of his son Tom, "If he'll only turn out a brave, truth-telling Englishman, and a gentleman and a Christian, that's all I want." What bet. ter can a school turn out 1JJJ What is the worth of our mathematics and language, of our... | |
 | Education guild of Great Britain and Ireland - 1885 - 384 sayfa
...public school as there portrayed. " I dou't care a straw for Greek particles or the digamma. If he will only turn out a brave, helpful, truth-telling Englishman,...and a gentleman and a Christian, that's all I want." " Conduct ia three-fourths of life," a still more famous Rugbeian than Tom Brown has told us. Granted,... | |
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... Shall I tell him to mind his work, and say he's sent to school to make himself a good scholar ? Well, but he isn't sent to school for that — at any rate, not for that mainly. I don't care a straw for Greek particles, or the digamma ; no more does... 
