 I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly...  The British Annals of Education for ...: Being The Scholastic Quarterly Review - Page 4111844Full view - About this book
 | John Milton Berdan - English poetry - 1920 - 600 pages
...or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the...measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till tune come that I must go to Mr. Elmer. . . . The gentleness of the teacher obviously lies in favorable... | |
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