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    The Academy Keeper
    The Academy Keeper
    The Academy Keeper
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    The Academy Keeper

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    "The Academy Keeper" is an interesting satirical work about boarding schools. Contents include: Academy Terms, &c. Diet Lodging Recreation Discipline Instruction Address Wives Ushers and other Servants Other Servants
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateSep 15, 2022
    ISBN8596547315773
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      The Academy Keeper - DigiCat

      Anonymous

      The Academy Keeper

      EAN 8596547315773

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION.

      ERRORS.

      DIRECTIONS

      TO

      Academy Keepers.

      Printed for Tho. Peat, No. 22. Fleet-Street.

      M.DCC.LXX.

      INTRODUCTION.

      Table of Contents

      After many unsuccessful experiments, made some years ago, to retrieve a declining fortune, I was lucky enough at last to marry the mistress of a boarding-school: her circumstances were not, indeed, at the time of our marriage, very considerable. But as I was neither unacquainted with the world, nor the more useful sciences, by a peculiar attention to the tempers of the boys, and the dispositions of their parents, by a flexibility of face, for which I was always remarkable, the assistance of a northern degree, and a tolerable share of assiduity; I soon accumulated a large fortune with credit. My eldest daughter I afterwards married to a favourite usher, resigned to him the school, and for his service drew up most of the following rules. After his decease I favoured many others with a copy, who adhered to them with equally great advantage, and added a few to their number: I therefore should not acquit myself properly as a citizen of

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