 | James Boswell - 1831
...Hunter, master of the free grammar school, Lichfield, that he never taught a boy in his life — he whipped and they learned. Hunter was a pompous man,...Gastrel was on a visit at Mr. Hervey's, in London, at the time that Johnson was writing the Rambler ; the printer's boy would often come after him to their... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897
...Hunter, master of the free grammar school, Lichfield, that he never taught a boy in his life — he whipped and they learned '. Hunter was a pompous man,...Gastrel was on a visit at Mr. Hervey's, in London, at the time that Johnson was writing the Rambler ; the printer's boy would often come after him to their... | |
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He used to say of Dr. Hunter, master of the free grammar school, Lichfield, that he never taught a boy in his life — he whipped and they learned '. Hunter was a pompous man, and never entered the school without his gown and cassock, and his wig full... 