A more lying, round-about, puzzleheaded 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. The Caxtons: A Family Picture - الصفحة 40بواسطة Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1859عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 802
...instruction*: that which had made the greatest noise was npon the infamous fiction of SpKLLraa-BooKs : " A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than...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 - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 1258
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 816
...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 systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood." Such was the exordium of this... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...University of Bonn ; but finding learning too common a drug in that market to bring the high price at which noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING BOOKS...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... | |
| 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 900
...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...spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood. . . . How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense... | |
| George Withers (advocate of spelling reform.) - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 104
...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...spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood. . . . How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense... | |
| 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...Lytton, no mere orthographical pedant certainly, but in literary matters a shrewd man of the world. " A more lying, roundabout, puzzleheaded delusion than...spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood. "f The net result of the English spelling difficulty may be summed up as follows — half a million... | |
| 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...Lytton, no mere orthographical pedant certainly, but in literary matters a shrewd man of the world. " A more lying, roundabout, puzzleheaded delusion than...spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood." The net result of the English spelling difficulty may be summed up as follows— half a million of... | |
| 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 944
...It may be so ; still I doubt whether even such objects would justify such means. Lord Lytton says, " A more lying, round-about, puzzle-headed delusion...spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of... | |
| 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...sense, can hardly be considered an element of Victorian English. Indeed, as Lord Lytton well says, "A more lying, round-about, puzzleheaded delusion...the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system ot spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood. How can a system of education flourish... | |
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