 | William Thomas Fernie - 1913 - 442 sayfa
...and contradict. " Fighting with fists," wrote " An Old Boy " in Tom Brown's School Days, at Rugby, " is the natural and English way for English boys to...or ever was there, amongst any nation under the sun ? " These earnest manly words occur as a comment on the school fight between Tom Brown and Slogger... | |
 | Elizabeth Langland - 2002 - 204 sayfa
...understood, is the business, the real, highest, honestest business of every son of man" (218). Further, "fighting with fists is the natural and English way for English boys to settle their quarrels" (231). And finally, "if you do fight, fight it out; and don't give in while you can stand and see"... | |
 | Mike Huggins, J. A. Mangan - 2004 - 286 sayfa
...Thomas Hughes, of course, provided the moral licence for public schoolboys to beat each other senseless: 'Fighting with fists is the natural and English way for English boys to settle their quarrels.'95 He urged his youthful readers to 'learn to box, then, as you leam to play cricket and... | |
 | Valeria Tinkler-Villani - 2005 - 326 sayfa
...Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) describes an exemplary fight of honour, and Hughes concludes, "Fighting is the natural and English way for English boys to settle their quarrels".7 The Amateur Boxing Association was set up in London in 1880 to encourage schoolboy contests... | |
 | Margaret Markwick - 2007 - 238 sayfa
...his salt has enemies who must be beaten',15 or recommending settling a dispute with a boxing match: 'Fighting with fists is the natural and English way for English boys to settle their quarrels.' The adult narrative voice refers to a contemporary debate on the subject in The Times as 'cant and... | |
 | Thomas Weber - 2008 - 368 sayfa
...for their own public school days,84 compares a rugby match to a battle.85 Hughes himself thought that "fighting with fists is the natural and English way for English boys to settle their quarrels."86 As JA Mangan observed, "the Victorian upper middle classes were more than satisfied with... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 sayfa
...fists nowadays. Even Thackeray has given in to it ; and only a few weeks ago there was some rampant stuff in the Times on the subject, in an article on...What substitute for it is there, or ever was there, among any nation under the sun ? What would you like to see take its place ? Learn to box, then, as... | |
 | 1845 - 492 sayfa
...fists now-a-days. Even Thackeray has given in to it ; and only a few weeks ago, there was some rampant stuff in the Times on the subject, in an article on...natural and English way for English boys to settle their 475 quarrels. What substitute for it is there, or ever was there, among any nation, under the sun ?... | |
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Boys will quarrel, and when they quarrel will sometimes fight. Fighting with fists is the natural and English way for English boys to settle their quarrels. 
