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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: particular, Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age,
his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick, or a box
on the ears, or a cuff on the head, or some little admonition of
that sort, than he did of any other ordinary duty of life; and he
would further remark, with looks of great significance, that but
for this judicious bringing up, he might have never been the man he
was at that present speaking; which was probable enough, as he was,
beyond all question, the dullest dog of the party. In short,
between old John and old John's friends, there never was an
unfortunate young fellow so bullied, badgered, worried, fretted,
and brow-beaten; so constantly beset, or made so tired of his life,
Barnaby Rudge |
