Excerpt from Rambles Round Eton and Harrow flattered from early childhood by a gamekeeper or a groom. George III. Is said to have related with great gusto a tale of a Scotch schoolmaster who accompanied him to the door Of the schoolroom with his hat on, and when outside the door he said to the uncovered monarch, - who, by the way, was then only Prince of Wales, You will not think me wanting in courtesy, I hope, but the fact is this - that if the boys thought there was any one else as important as myself, I should ...
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Excerpt from Rambles Round Eton and Harrow flattered from early childhood by a gamekeeper or a groom. George III. Is said to have related with great gusto a tale of a Scotch schoolmaster who accompanied him to the door Of the schoolroom with his hat on, and when outside the door he said to the uncovered monarch, - who, by the way, was then only Prince of Wales, You will not think me wanting in courtesy, I hope, but the fact is this - that if the boys thought there was any one else as important as myself, I should never get any obedience again.' - Well, many youths go to the great public schools even yet, and only learn their relative position when they get there nor, indeed, as a rule, do they take their newly acquired knowledge unkindly. They meet other youths there who can shoot or play cricket better than they can, and are quite as important in every way. But in another and far more important sense this rule holds good. Light is brought to bear Upon masters themselves, and the tyrants that were to be met with in private schools a generation or more ago (and of my own knowledge I could enumerate one or more) would not be able to keep their places for a single term at such schools as Eton or Harrow, whatever their attainments or their industry might be. And as this part of the subject naturally can only extend to an introduction, I may mention. 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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