Reminiscences of Charles Butler, Esq. , of Lincoln's-Inn (Classic Reprint)

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N 0 one ever discovered a passion for litera ture at an earlier hour in his life than the Remi niscent. He was first sent for education to a roman-catholic academy at Hammersmith. During the two centuries, which immediately followed the reformation, the severity of the, penal code had prevented the establishment, in England, of catholic institutions for education. The first, which acquired any thing like celebrity, was at Twyford in Hampshire, it had the honour of furnishing Mr. Pope with his first rudiments of learning: the school at Hammersmith and a few others followed. They were occasionally interrupted by informers; so that it was deemed advisable to break up the establishment at Twy ford; and more than once, the apprehension of a domiciliary visit forced the master of the school at Hammersmith to send away, suddenly, all its inmates to their parents. But, after the middle of the last century, the catholic schools were seldom molested.

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