 The gentry and citizens had little learning of any kind, and their way of breeding up their children was suitable to the rest. They were as severe to their children as their schoolmasters, and their schoolmasters as masters of the house of correction...  Temple Bar - Page 215edited by - 1863Full view - About this book
 | James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 454 pages
...The child perfectly loathed the sight of the parent as the slave his torture. Gentlemen of thirty or forty years old were to stand like mutes and fools...bareheaded before their parents, and the daughters (well grown women) were to stand at the cupboard-side during the whole time of the proud mother's visits,... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 442 pages
...The child perfectly loathed the sight of the parent as the slave his torture. Gentlemen of thirty or forty years old were to stand like mutes and fools...bareheaded before their parents, and the daughters (well grown women) were to stand at the cupboard-side during the whole time of the proud mother's visits,... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 378 pages
...The child perfectly loathed the sight of the parent, as the slave his torture. Gentlemen of thirty or forty years old were to stand like mutes and fools...bare-headed before their parents; and the daughters, well-grown women, were to stand at the cupboard side during the whole time of the proud mother's visits,... | |
 | 1824 - 486 pages
...severe to their children as their schoolmasters, and their schoolmasters as masters of the houses of correction : the child perfectly loathed the sight...and the daughters (grown women) were to stand at the cuphoard-side during the whole time of the proud mother's visit, unless (as the fashion was) leave... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 382 pages
...The child perfectly loathed the sight of the parent, as the slave his torture. Gentlemen of thirty or forty years old were to stand like mutes and fools...bare-headed before their parents ; and the daughters, well-grown women, were to stand at the cupboard side during the whole time of the proud mother's visits,... | |
 | English literature - 1824 - 436 pages
...the sight of the parent, as the slave his torture. Gentlemen of thirty or forty years old were made to stand like mutes and fools, bareheaded, before their parents ; and the daughters, well grown women, to stand at the cupboardside during the whole time of the proud mother's visits,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 390 pages
...severe to their children as their schoolmasters, and their schoolmasters as masters of the house of correction : the child perfectly loathed the sight...stand at the cupboard-side during the whole time of her proud mother's visit, unless (as the fashion was) leave was desired forsooth that a cushion should... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1827 - 892 pages
...severe to their children as their schoolmasters, and their schoolmasters as masters of the house of correction : the child perfectly loathed the sight...stand at the cupboard-side during the whole time of her proud mother's visit, unless (as the fashion was) leave was desired forsooth that a cushion should... | |
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