 ... now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command; or, peradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge. Truth to say, he was a conscientious...  The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent - Page 317by Washington Irving - 1823Full view - About this book
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...path of knowledge. Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, " Spare the rod, and spoil the child." Ichabod Crane's...would not have it imagined, however, that he was one ol those cruel potentates of the school, who joy in the smart of their subjects ; on the contrary,... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 pages
...in mind the golden maxim, " Spare the SANTA CLARA COUNTY TEACHERS' LIBRARY Wo... WASHINGTON IRVING. rod and spoil the child." Ichabod Crane's scholars certainly were not spoiled. 5. When school hours were over, he was even the companion and playmate of the larger boys; and, on... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 pages
...path of knowledge. Truth to say, he was a conscientious man that ever bore in mind the golden maxim, " Spare the rod and spoil the child." — Ichabod Crane's scholars certainly were not spoiled. 1 would not have imagined, however, that he was one of those cruel potentates of the school, who joy... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 pages
...path of knowledge. Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, " Spare the rod and spoil the child." — Ichabod Crane's...with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burden off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling, that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 420 pages
...path of knowledge. Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, " Spare the rod and spoil the child." — Ichabod Crane's...spoiled. I would not have it imagined, however, that " fchabod Crane s Scholars Certainly were not Spoiled." From a drawing by /'. OC Car ley. TKC NE7/... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...path of knowledge. Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, " Spare the rod and spoil the child." Ichabod Crane's...with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burden off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling, that... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 238 pages
...path of knowledge. Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, " Spare the rod and spoil the child." Ichabod Crane's...with discrimination rather than severity, taking the burden off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling, that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pages
...of knowledge. Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, that ever bore in mind the golden maxim, " spare the rod and spoil the child." — Ichabod Crane's...with discrimination rather than severity ; taking the burden off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling, that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pages
...of knowledge. Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, that ever bore in mind the golden maxim, " spare the rod and spoil the child." — Ichabod Crane's...subjects ; on the contrary, he administered justice with discrimipai.iorL rather than severity ; taking the*burden off the backs of the weak, and laying it... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 72 pages
...conscientious man, that ever bore in mind the golden maxim, "spare the rod and spoil the child."—Ichabod Crane's scholars certainly were not spoiled. I would...with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burden off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling that... | |
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