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Wherefore Joan Audley came to Silchester with full knowledge of all that a
gentlewoman ought to know , and with certainty that she would teach her
servants things to them unknown . By no means let it be supposed that she was
merely a good ...
Wherefore Joan Audley came to Silchester with full knowledge of all that a
gentlewoman ought to know , and with certainty that she would teach her
servants things to them unknown . By no means let it be supposed that she was
merely a good ...
Сторінка 16
She would make a girl of sixteen wear a pinafore , and stand her in a corner if
she gave herself airs and graces , yet would carry her into Shakspeare ' s magic
realm , and show her the clue to Milton ' s music , and teach her how to detect the
...
She would make a girl of sixteen wear a pinafore , and stand her in a corner if
she gave herself airs and graces , yet would carry her into Shakspeare ' s magic
realm , and show her the clue to Milton ' s music , and teach her how to detect the
...
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It would be absurd to teach children what is really a nonentity . How many
alphabets are there ? how many letters in each ? how many sounds without a
letter to represent them ? ” Mrs . Silchester , though one of Madam Tucker ' s prize
pupils ...
It would be absurd to teach children what is really a nonentity . How many
alphabets are there ? how many letters in each ? how many sounds without a
letter to represent them ? ” Mrs . Silchester , though one of Madam Tucker ' s prize
pupils ...
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Imagination and memory are what men want . Learn your Homer and your Solon
. Get poetry and law into your brain ; the one will teach you the pleasure and peril
of life , the other its method and management . " “ But really , John , ” says Mrs ...
Imagination and memory are what men want . Learn your Homer and your Solon
. Get poetry and law into your brain ; the one will teach you the pleasure and peril
of life , the other its method and management . " “ But really , John , ” says Mrs ...
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But here am I with a girl and a boy to educateand I am told that the proper way to
begin is to teach them a heteroëpic abracadabra . ” " I wish you could manage
without such long words , dear , ” said Joan . “ I am very sorry , my darling , but ...
But here am I with a girl and a boy to educateand I am told that the proper way to
begin is to teach them a heteroëpic abracadabra . ” " I wish you could manage
without such long words , dear , ” said Joan . “ I am very sorry , my darling , but ...
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