Maid of the village inn, Who workest woe on satin, (The grass in black, the graves in green, The epitaph in Latin,) Trust not to them who say, In stanzas, they adore thee; Oh rather sleep in churchyard clay, With urn and cherub o'er thee!
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The stigma then attached to one receiving seeming charity through free schools stimulated thrifty Negroes to have their children instructed either in private institutions kept by friendly white teachers or by teachers of their own color.[1] In 1812 a society of the free people of color was organized to raise a fund, the interest of which was to sustain a free school for orphan children.[2]
— from The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Carter Godwin Woodson
"I've always said," thought Armstrong, "that our rotten system of education is responsible for most of the fools and all the damn fools, but I never before knew how true it was."
— from Light-Fingered Gentry by David Graham Phillips
The sheik's tent and three others remained standing, but the rest were levelled to the ground, their occupants preferring to start at once rather than risk being caught by the Mahdists.
— from The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
"Maid of the village inn, Who workest woe on satin, The grass in black, the graves in green, The epitaph in Latin, "Trust not to them who say In stanzas they adore thee; Oh, rather sleep in church-yard clay, With maudlin cherubs o'er thee!"
— from Literary and Social Essays by George William Curtis
But tell me, Marshal, do you really believe that Louvois and his abettors will urge the King seriously to such steps?" "To a thousand others," replied Schomberg; "to a thousand harsher, and a thousand more dangerous measures.
— from The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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