 | 1915 - 980 pàgines
...glaring posters of racing results when London was afloat with wild rumors of a British naval disaster. If the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, evidently there are modern Londoners who believe the Germans will be beaten on the race-course and... | |
 | 1915 - 728 pàgines
...desire for success is altogether wrong. Someone has said that if it is true, as commonly reported, that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton it might be said with equal truth that England's numerous blunders and defeats in the Boer War should... | |
 | Rockford (Ill.). Rockford Female Seminary - 1889 - 92 pàgines
...for statesmen. It trained Chatham, and Fox, and North, and Grenville. The Duke of Wellington declared that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, and his brother, the gentle Lord Wellesley, begged to be laid to rest in the bosom of Eton, that mother... | |
 | Sir George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1901 - 792 pàgines
...your readers to draw what inference you choose from the circumstance." "It is a trite saying, I know, that 'the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.' How many Etonians are now at the front ? "Altogether over 1,100 in various branches of the service.... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1902 - 578 pàgines
...building of strong character by the private schools. The Duke of Wellington is quoted as saying : " The battle of Waterloo was won on the Playing Fields of Eton." How many less sanguinary victories have had their causes back on the fields of Andover, Exeter, and... | |
 | George Brooks - 1895 - 350 pàgines
...were the effects of slavery in the United States or in our own colonies. The Duke of Wellington said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. A significant saying ! Similarly one may say that the great battle which has to be fought out in the... | |
 | John Kersley Fowler - 1898 - 306 pàgines
...inculcating to them of those noble principles of honour, patriotism, and self-reliance, taught there, say, ' The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.' — ' FLOREAT ETONA.' Whilst writing of the Eton Montem, the dear old provost, Dr. Goodall, is brought... | |
 | 1900 - 290 pàgines
...useful lessons are those which boys learn upon the playground. It was the Duke of Wellington who said that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton; only, adds Sir John Lubbock, " let games be the recreation and not the business of life." Thus we see... | |
 | John Huntley Skrine - 1902 - 340 pàgines
...and many friends a condition of suppressed nervous irritability, which they call " funk," I was told that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, and that only by keeping our youngsters in this kind of habitual " fear of death " could we be sure... | |
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Wellington is supposed to have said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. 
