| 1848 - 802 sidor
...instruction*: that which had made the greatest noise was npon the infamous fiction of SpKLLraa-BooKs : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...CONFUSE the clear instincts of truth in our accursed systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1881 - 1258 sidor
...repugnant to good taste and common sens." Lord Lytton says: "A more lying, round-about, pnzzl-heded delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accurst system of speling, was never concocted by the father of falshood." Prof. Hadley, of Yale, said... | |
| 1848 - 816 sidor
...instruction : that which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING-BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...CONFUSE the clear instincts of truth in our accursed systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton - 1849 - 656 sidor
...instruction : that which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING-BOOKS : "A more lying, roundabout, puzzleheaded delusion than...CONFUSE the clear instincts of truth in our accursed systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1855 - 420 sidor
...instruction: that which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this famous treatise. "For instance, take the monosyllable CAT, What a brazen... | |
| 1873 - 542 sidor
...should be rejected. Its loss would do no harm, but much good." Let us reject it, then, by all means. How can a system of education flourish that begins...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict? " Rev. DP LINDSLEY, in the " Rapid Writer," for Oct., 1872, advocates a " simplification of our orthography."... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1856 - 364 sidor
...that market to bring the high price at which noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...CONFUSE the clear instincts of truth in our accursed systems' of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1862 - 368 sidor
...finding learning too common a drug in that marnoise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we CONFUSE the clear instituís of truth in our accursed systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood."... | |
| 1885 - 900 sidor
...may be so ; still I doubt whether even such objects would justify such means. Lord Lytton says : ' A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? ' " Here is a chief source of the incapacity for thinking which academy and college students bring... | |
| George Withers (advocate of spelling reform.) - 1874 - 104 sidor
...is truth as well as satire in the remark of Sir Bulwer Lytton, in " The Caxtons," when he says : " A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed delusion...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? " " It is the universal testimony of teachers," remarks Mr. E. Jones, late Headmaster of the Hibernian... | |
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