 | England - 1848 - 802 pages
...Don't they rather compose the sound sce-eh-te, or 2N ceaty ! How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? Kb wonder that the horn-book is the despair of mothers !" From this instance, the reader will perceive... | |
 | Scotland - 1848 - 816 pages
...cat? Don't they rather compose the sound see-eh-t¿^<x ceaty ? How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? No vender that the horn-book is the despair of mothers !" From this instance, the reader will perceive... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton - 1849 - 656 pages
...eh — tee, compose the sound cat? Don't they rather compose the sound see — eh — le, orceaty? How can a system of education nourish that begins...which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict? No wonder that the horn-book is the despair of mothers!" From this instance, the reader will perceive... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1849 - 348 pages
...cat? Don't they rather compose the sound see-eh-t6, or ceaty ? How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? No wonder that the hornbook is the despair of mothers!" From this instance, the reader will perceive... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1855 - 420 pages
...A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we CONFUSE the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of 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... | |
 | Education - 1873 - 536 pages
...harm, but much good." Let us reject it, then, by all means. How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, 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 - 1860 - 420 pages
...rather compose the sound seeeh-te or ceaty ? How can a system of education flourish that begins with so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? No wonder that the hornbook is the despair of mothers ! " From this instance, the reader will perceive... | |
 | Science - 1885 - 900 pages
...A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling was never...of falsehood. . . . How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict... | |
 | George Withers (advocate of spelling reform.) - 1874 - 104 pages
...A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling, was never...of falsehood. . . . How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict... | |
 | 1875 - 602 pages
..." A more lying, roundabout, puzzleheaded delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood. "f The net result of the English spelling difficulty may be summed up as follows — half a million... | |
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A more lying, round-about, puzzleheaded delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood. How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous... 
