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prudent keeper of that lofty ' lie' very properly refused to let him go up , remarking that it would make the Protestant pillar look little when , lug height was deducted from its elevation . Besides , the inhabitants of Fishstreet hill had threatened , one and all , to quit their houses if he attempted to ascend ; he might , as they had every reason to fear , bring down both Monument and houses on their devoted heads . When he went
shooting in September , his friends who had estates of their own lopped off the lower branches of their plantations , lest he should meet with the death of Absalom ; and before he came down to their shooting-boxes they had the doors made higher and the ceilings lifted , &c . &c . He would pertinaciously persist in travelling by one coach , when he ought to have gone in three ; and as he was resolutely bent upon riding inside , they made a hole through the roof for his head and shoulders , and got informed
against for carrying luggage higher than the number of inches allowed by act of Parliament . If he went outside , the coach was either upset , or they lost so much time in setting him down and taking him up in passing under arches and gateways , that they were quite sick of attempting to get him out of town ; and at last , as soon as his servant entered the coach-office to take a place for him , There was not a place to be had for six months to come V was the universal coach-office cry . Even in
town , when he called c Coach 1 ' the whole stand could stand him no longer ; coach , chariot , and cab , bolted off the street as fast as their crazy cattle could carry them . Of course no hackneyman was anxious to take up a gentleman who bulged out the back part of his coach with his shoulders , and tripped up his horses by thrusting his excess of legs through the front . It was the same if he invoked a ' Boat !'—the waterman cut their inch of cable in no time , and pushed off for the Surrey shore . He never rode on horseback . No doubt he would have done so
if he could have found either horse or mare hands-high enough to keep his legs from trailing after him . It is said he once affected to ride a cob , but it was soon perceived that he was walking , and that the little fellow was only trotting along between his legs , as it were , under his auspices . " We could almost wish , for his own sake , that our late loner . We could almost wish , for his own sake , that our late long
, legal , walking wonder , were alive to laugh at Mr Webbe ' 8 g oodhumoured jesting upon his altitudinal dimensions . Such a laugh would , probably , be worth the coming to earth again to roar withal . The Training System * By David Stow , Esq . Glasgow , 1836 .
This is an exposition of the system adopted in the model schools of the Glasgow Educational Society . There is much in it which is clear and satisfactory . Some of the principles avowed are of the utmost importance , and of universal application .
u The great object in the Infant School is , or ought to be , the prevention of bad , and the formation of good habits , not the mere amount or extent of knowledge , but directing the mind to proper objects . "
This is perfect truth , and is at the very basis of education . " Teaching may be stated as the infusion of principles \ tad tr&uting as the formation of habits . "
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Critical Notices . 647
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 647, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/59/
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