 Gladstone gave great offence by remarking that the boys who were foremost in this kind of butchery were the first to quake at the consequences of detection, and he dared them, if they were proud of their work, to sport the trophies of it in their hats....  Seven Years at Eton, 1857-1864 - Page 409edited by - 1883 - 447 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1883 - 620 pages
...sport the trophies of it in their hats. On the following Ash Wednesday he found three newly amputated pigtails hung in a bunch on his door, with a paper bearing this inscription : "Quisqnis amat porcos, porcis amabitur illia; Cauda sit exemplum ter repetita tibi." Gladstone wrote... | |
 | James Brinsley Richards - 1883 - 462 pages
...Keate. George Mellish was my junior ; he was very delicate and even then suffering from hereditary gout. Few that knew him only as a great scientific...this inscription : " Quisquis amat porcos, porcis et amabitur illis ; Cauda sit exemplum ter repetita tibi." Gladstone wrote underneath a challenge to... | |
 | James Brinsley Richards - 1883 - 472 pages
...Keate. George Mellish was my junior ; he was very delicate and even then suffering from hereditary gout. Few that knew him only as a great scientific...on his door, with a paper bearing this inscription : " Quisquia amat porcos, porcis et amabitur illis ; Cauda sit exemplum ter repetita tibi." Gladstone... | |
 | Ralph Nevill - Private schools - 1911 - 398 pages
...who were foremost in this kind of butchery were the first to quake at the consequences of detection. He dared them, if they were proud of their work, to...hats. On the following Ash Wednesday he found three newly amputated pig-tails hung in a bunch on his door, with a paper inscribed : " Quisquis amat porcos,... | |
 | Walter Adam Sampson - 1912 - 448 pages
...to hustle the drovers and cut off the tails of the pigs. Gladstone boldly .denounced such cruelty. He dared them if they were proud of their work to...Wednesday he found three newly-amputated pig-tails hung on his door with a paper inscribed : " Quisquis amat porcos, porcis et amabitur ille; Cauda sit exemplum... | |
 | Charles Anthony Shriner - Anecdotes - 1918 - 712 pages
...sport the trophies of it in their hats. On the following Ash-Wednesday he found three newly amputated pigtails hung in a bunch on his door, with a paper bearing this inscription, "Quisque amat porcos, porcis amabitwr illis; causa sit exemplum ter repetita tibi." Gladstone wrote... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1918 - 708 pages
...sport the trophies of it in their hats. On the following Ash- Wednesday lie found three newly amputated pigtails hung in a bunch on his door, with a paper bearing this inscription, "Quisque amat parcos, porcis amabitur illis; causa sit exemplum ter repetita tibi." Gladstone wrote... | |
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