 | Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler - Gentry - 1869 - 400 pages
...instances be attended with abuse of them, then I would warn that man to prepare to be disappointed. But what would you think of the father who would insist...he should be allowed to set a foot into the water? In my mind, the one case does not involve a more palpable absurdity than the other.” In the following... | |
 | Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler - Gentry - 1869 - 404 pages
...instances be attended with abuse of them, then I would warn that man to prepare to be disappointed. But what would you think of the father who would insist...he should be allowed to set a foot into the water 1 In my mind, the one fcase does not involve a more palpable absurdity than the other." In the following... | |
 | Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler - Gentry - 1874 - 364 pages
...instances be attended with abuse of them, then I would warn that man to prepare to be disappointed. But what would you think of the father who would insist...he should be allowed to set a foot into the water ? In my mind, the one case does not involve a more palpable absurdity -than the other." TO LORD HOWICK.... | |
 | Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler - Gentry - 1874 - 384 pages
...to prepare to be disappointed. But what would you think of the father who 126 Memoir of John Grey. would insist that his boy should learn to swim, but...he should be allowed to set a foot into the water? In my mind, the one case does not involve a more palpable absurdity than the other." TO LORD HOWICK.... | |
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but what would you think of the father, who would insist that his boy should learn to swim, but that he should be quite perfect in the art, before ever he should be allowed to set a foot into the water? 