 | 1848 - 802 pages
...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 - 1258 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 1849 - 656 pages
...instruction : that which had made the greatest noise was upon the infamous fiction of SPELLING-BOOKS : "A more lying, roundabout, puzzleheaded 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 George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1855 - 420 pages
...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 a brazen... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1856 - 364 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1873 - 536 pages
...should be rejected. Its loss would do no harm, but much good." Let us reject it, then, by all means. How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict? " Rev. DP LINDSLEY, in the " Rapid Writer," for... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1862 - 368 pages
...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 pages
...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...flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? ' " Here is a chief source of the incapacity for... | |
 | George Withers (advocate of spelling reform.) - 1874 - 104 pages
...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...flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? " " It is the universal testimony of teachers,"... | |
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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 system of spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood. 
