 | Adeline Waddy - 1878 - 520 páginas
...of the indiscriminate severity which had marked them. ' When I was a boy at the Grove,' he said, ' I was thrashed every day. I have no doubt that I generally deserved it ; but it was too much, — it did no good.' So unusual was the severity of some of the masters that a deputation of... | |
 | Marianne Thormählen - 2007 - 10 páginas
...boy who was there from 1812 to 1818, at a time when Patrick Bronte was associated with the school: 'I was thrashed every day. I have no doubt that I generally deserved it; but it was too much — it did no good . . .' Clifford W. Towlson (ed.), Woodhouse Grove School 1812— 1962: A Hundred... | |
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When I was a boy at the Grove, I was thrashed every day. I have no doubt that I generally deserved it; but it was too much — it did no good.") In 1812, John Fennell, the first headmaster, writes: "I am happy to inform you that God has begun a most blessed... 