Excerpt from An Imperfect Mother Meaning to say, Hall, that when you send me up an essay composed almost entirely of quotations from standard authors, you might at least have the honesty to admit your authorities. The class roused itself from the wearied air proper to this last hour in English literature. Old Ser combe was not one of the regular masters at the King's School, and the general opinion held by the nine boys who came to him for instruction was that the subject had been tacked on to the ordinary school work in ...
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Excerpt from An Imperfect Mother Meaning to say, Hall, that when you send me up an essay composed almost entirely of quotations from standard authors, you might at least have the honesty to admit your authorities. The class roused itself from the wearied air proper to this last hour in English literature. Old Ser combe was not one of the regular masters at the King's School, and the general opinion held by the nine boys who came to him for instruction was that the subject had been tacked on to the ordinary school work in Order to give him a job. They had no respect for his particular form of scholarship, and Hall II had expressed the popular feeling when he had said that any fool could teach English. Moreover, the class was held at the tail of the week, and both master and boys accepted the fact that the second hour on Friday afternoon was just a time to be got through particularly in the hot weather. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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