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In order to show our qualification pk schotftxji&te ^ in general , we have applied to sundry word-wi ^ ehts , phrase-tuners , and others
of the order , to giv ^ us a due assortment , of definitions by which 16 distinguish ^ f gP <> 4 ( . $ & bad , little and g reat , the likely-to-go ~ on and the depig [^ fy-d > stai | ced , * nd to mark out the distinctions by signs as palpably , #$ ; what separated Guelph . afid GhibelKne , Roundhead and Cavalier , f . Covenanter' and Ms antagonist We
cannot say we hare succeeded , nor can yet distinctly point out , the characteristics * ( but we promise to overcome the difficulty soon ) of-W ^ ig , Conservative Whig , Con * efvdtit > e ? 9 \ Toryf Liberal Tory , Destructive , Utilitaricm . We found so inuchpromise , and so little perforth&nce , in the various teachers top whom we resorted , that We turned away in disgust , arid resorted to our own often-thumbed and many-flogging-causing glossaries of past periods of our efJuoatfQ ^ i . T / \| l 9 began with those pages of undeniable characteristics , A dog barketh / ' . a cat mewetu , ' ' , s hog grunteth , '
* a rat — no , we could not find a rat in the . whole octavo , and we threw our venerable remnant of early institutions into the fire . We must elaborate principles as we may . 'TUe proper study of mankind is man . ' Sb we wi | i take him up from a Jx > y . A nursery-boyXiYp , ( f | e 9 Uiqe this is a correct plirase , since all words may have { 4 wiQutives , anc * we have nursejy-7 Hian ) is a little martyr to sweet indigestions , ( including kisses of Betty , which
bury his little lips with a pressure he sputters to be quit of , ) and a little tyrant to all who are influenced by the fear of a squall which shall penetrate the parlour . A school-boy is more ( in the nature of a Review ) stuffed in the wrapper than substantially full , ( we need not analyze a
schoolboy ' s pockets , ) his day is streaky with hours of Uproar and dull silence ; but nei is not perfectl y silent even in * conning his task , for , in a general buzz , he would near that , if he < Ud , not keep it out by buzzing too ; so that he mutters audibfl y a ^ J he reads : this propensity is a great annoyance to his elder sister ip the holidays , as it quite interrupts the study pf her novel and , her listening to the coaches that are the axpeoted relief of the monotony of her
window prospect . . ,- ¦ , v , ? The biggest boy of the school is a thing of another species , be is no more a school-boy than a tadpole is the embryo it proceeds from , or the frog in which it merges . He is a thin £ destined to carry the immoralities of the scullion into the counting-houae or college , ^ nd t | b * going - on-ti ck into his de alings wit h duiu more formidable than tne widow who makes mince-pies , and the
innkeeper who speculates on pay for the jade at the half-yearly steeple-chase . But * shadows cast before' come thickly on Ma sweep this , small villain from our view . The cotteg * - ( 4 man 9 has a gown , woe to those who h * ve iJDt ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 709, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/17/
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