 | 1848 - 802 σελίδες
...instruction*: that which had made the greatest noise was npon the infamous fiction of SpKLLraa-BooKs : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this famous treatise. " For instance, take the monosyllabic CAT. What brazen... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1881 - 1258 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 816 σελίδες
...instruction : that which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING-BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this famous treatise. " For instance, take the monosyllable CAT. What brazen... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton - 1849 - 656 σελίδες
...instruction : that which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING-BOOKS : "A more lying, roundabout, puzzleheaded delusion than...spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this famous treatise. "For instance, take the monosyllable CAT. What brazen... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1849 - 352 σελίδες
...fiction of SPELLING-BOOKS: "A more lying, roundabout, puzzleheaded delusion than that by which we COKFUSE the clear instincts of truth in our accursed systems...spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this famous treatise. "For instance, take the monosyllable CAT. What brazen... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1855 - 420 σελίδες
...instruction: that which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1856 - 364 σελίδες
...that market to bring the high price at which noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...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... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1862 - 368 σελίδες
...finding learning too common a drug in that marnoise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING BOOKS : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we CONFUSE the clear instituís of truth in our accursed systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood."... | |
 | 1885 - 900 σελίδες
...may be so ; still I doubt whether even such objects would justify such means. Lord Lytton says : ' A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...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... | |
 | George Withers (advocate of spelling reform.) - 1874 - 104 σελίδες
...is truth as well as satire in the remark of Sir Bulwer Lytton, in " The Caxtons," when he says : " A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed delusion...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... | |
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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 systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood. 
