Excerpt: ...to be made to their names, because they knew nothing against it; while a few assented to the high qualifications of the teachers without scruple. As to the morality of such an unauthorized use of great names, on the one part, and the authorized use of them on the other, merely to avoid the utterance of a monosyllable of two letters, when the effect is a deception upon the public, it is not a subject for present discussion. Both practices are abuses of the times, which have been carried to such an extent that ...
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Excerpt: ...to be made to their names, because they knew nothing against it; while a few assented to the high qualifications of the teachers without scruple. As to the morality of such an unauthorized use of great names, on the one part, and the authorized use of them on the other, merely to avoid the utterance of a monosyllable of two letters, when the effect is a deception upon the public, it is not a subject for present discussion. Both practices are abuses of the times, which have been carried to such an extent that nothing can be more unmeaning than references of this kind--in regard as well to schools, and "institutes," and "seminaries," as to the publication of books by subscription, and the superior merits of patent blacking and razor-straps; as to which, by the way, it has always been a subject of speculation to the writer, why a reverend divine or an eminent physician should be supposed better qualified to give an opinion than a boot-black or a barber. Here, therefore, "let us breathe," as Shakspeare says, "and happily introduce a course of learning and ingenious studies," in the next chapter. CHAPTER XII. OF THE MARCH OF MIND. "Smith. The clerk of Chatham: he can write, and read, and cast accompt. Cade. O monstrous! Smith. We took him setting of boys' copies. Cade. Here's a villain! Smith. H'as a book in his pocket with red letters in't. Cade. Nay, then, he's a conjuror. Cade. Dost thou use to write thy name? or hast thou a mark to thyself, like an honest man? Clerk. Sir, I thank God, I have been so well brought up that I can write my name."--Shakspeare. "Hail, wedded love"--"and all that sort of thing." Milton and Matthews. It may well be imagined that the appearance of such a flourishing literary manifesto as that set forth in the preceding chapter, created an uncommon sensation in the village. The ladies admired the distiches of poetry with which the pompous proclamation was so plentifully...
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