 ... medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long, and geography, made up of seas...  The Calcutta Review - Página 2991854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1853 - 678 páginas
...boarding-school, — his' tory abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty ' thousand years long, — and geography made up of seas of ' treacle and seas of butter.' Of the capacity of the Indians to learn our language, and acquire a knowledge of our literature, Mr.... | |
 | Charles Hay Cameron - 1853 - 220 páginas
...English boarding-school, — history, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years long, — and geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter. " We are not without experience to guide us. History furnishes several analogous cases, and they all... | |
 | 1864 - 536 páginas
...English boarding school — History, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years long — and Geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter. "We are not without experience to guide us. History furnishes several analogous cases, and they all... | |
 | Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke - 1864 - 98 páginas
...English boarding-school ; history abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years long; and geography made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter." CHAPTER III. THE EFFORTS MADE BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TOWARDS EDUCATING THE NATIVES OF INDIA. " The... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1864 - 472 páginas
...English boarding school — History, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years long — and Geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter. " We are not without experience to guide us. History furnishes several analogous cases, and they all... | |
 | 1864 - 938 páginas
...English boarding school— History, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years long— and Geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter. "We are not without experience to guide us. History furnishes several analogous cases, and they all... | |
 | 1870 - 614 páginas
...English boardingschool ; history, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years long ; and geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter." Soon afterwards Lord William Bentinck issued an order in council, that the great object of the British... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 502 páginas
...English boarding-school, — history, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years long, — and geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter. "We are not without experience to guide us. History furnishes several analogous cases, and they all... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 páginas
...English boarding-school, — history, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years long, — and geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter. " We are not without experience to guide us. History furnishes several analogous cases, and they all... | |
 | 1878 - 890 páginas
...English boarding school, — history, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigiLs thirty thousand years long, — and geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter." This Minute — all the more misleading because penned by the most effective writer of his time —... | |
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