Recollections of a Town Boy at Westminster, 1849-1855

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Edward Arnold, 1903 - 232 pàgines

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Pàgina 11 - Nelson, and the Naval Supremacy of England. By W. CLARK RUSSELL, author of " The Wreck of the Grosvenor,
Pàgina 18 - Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE. 'Sportsmen of all descriptions will gladly welcome the sumptuous new edition issued by Mr. Edward Arnold of Colonel T. Thornton's Sporting Tour," which has long been a scarce book.
Pàgina 220 - Bartholomew, the priory in Smithfield, where upon a bank boarded about under a tree, some one scholar hath stepped up, and there hath opposed and answered, till he were by some better scholar overcome and put down ; and then the overcomer taking the place, did like as the first; and in the end the best opposers and answerers had rewards, which I observed not but it made both good schoohnasters, and also good scholars, diligently against such times to prepare themselves for the obtaining of this garland.
Pàgina 24 - FOOD AND THE PRINCIPLES OF DIETETICS. By ROBERT HUTCHISON, MD Edin., MRCP, Assistant Physician to the London Hospital and to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.
Pàgina 9 - Limited to 350 copies, of which 200 are for the use of the Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London, leaving 150 for sale.
Pàgina 210 - To which is added an Account of the Writers of the History of the Church.
Pàgina 27 - By Dr. J. BALDWIN, Professor of Pedagogy in the University of Texas ; Author of " Elementary Psychology and Education " and " Psychology applied to the Art of Teaching.
Pàgina 220 - often when being a boy, I came to see my father dwelling in the king's court, and often coming from school, when I met her, she would oppose me, touching my learning and lesson; and falling from grammar to logic, wherein she had some knowledge, she would subtilly conclude an argument with me, and by her handmaiden give me three or four pieces of money, and send me unto the palace where I should receive some victuals, and then be dismissed.
Pàgina 215 - School.] 469 by your Majesty's royal ancestors, and has bred up great numbers of men, useful both in Church and State; among whom are several who have the honour to serve your Majesty in high stations : that the dormitory of the said college is in so ruinous a condition that it must...
Pàgina 21 - OLD ENGLISH GLASSES. An Account of Glass Drinking-Vessels in England from Early Times to the end of the Eighteenth Century. With Introductory Notices of Continental Glasses during the same period, Original Documents, etc.

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