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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: gentles, were matter enough of jubilation to the student of
Herodotus and Plato, Plinius and ---- ahem! much more when the
circumnavigators are Britons; more, again, when Damnonians."
"Don't swear, master," said young Will Cary.
"Gulielme Cary, Gulielme Cary, hast thou forgotten thy--"
"Whippings? Never, old lad! Go on; but let not the license of the
scholar overtop the modesty of the Christian."
"More again, as I said, when, incolae, inhabitants of Devon; but,
most of all, men of Bideford school. Oh renowned school! Oh
schoolboys ennobled by fellowship with him! Oh most happy
pedagogue, to whom it has befallen to have chastised a
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