 | England - 1848 - 802 pages
...which had made the greatest noise was npon the infamous fiction of SpKLLraa-BooKs : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which...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 - Government publications - 1881 - 1258 pages
...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1848 - 816 pages
...which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING-BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which...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 pages
...Don't they rather compose the sound see — eh — le, orceaty? How can a system of education nourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, 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.) - 1855 - 420 pages
...which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which...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
...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 pages
...bring the high price at which noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which...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... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, Richard McAllister Smith, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John Patrick McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1879 - 584 pages
...ground consecrated by prescription to the free play of blind caprice." Lord Lytton says: "A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which...system of spelling, was never concocted by the father ot falsehood. How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which... | |
 | Science - 1885 - 900 pages
...still I doubt whether even such objects would justify such means. Lord Lytton says : ' A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which...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 pages
...well as satire in the remark of Sir Bulwer Lytton, in " The Caxtons," when he says : " A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which...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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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. 
