 Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles.  Annual Register - 第 279 頁由 編輯 - 1801完整檢視 - 關於此書
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...estate. At those years I was by no means a favorite with anybody. I made an excellent English scholar, and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age. I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyish days. too. I owed much to an old woman... | |
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...but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. The earliest composition that I recollect taking pleasure in was... | |
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