...him the dullest boy she had ever taught. His tutor called him ignorant and stupid. Irving says that a lad " whose passions are not strong enough in youth...tutors, and not his inclinations, have chalked out, by four or five years' perseverance, will probably obtain every advantage and honor his college can...

...him the dullest boy she had ever taught. His tutor called him ignorant and stupid. Irving says that a lad " whose passions are not strong enough in youth...tutors, and not his inclinations, have chalked out, by four or five years' perseverance, will probably obtain every advantage and honor his college can...

...him the dullest boy she had ever taught. His tutor called him ignorant and stupid. Irving says that a lad " whose passions are not strong enough in youth...tutors, and not his inclinations, have chalked out, by four or five years' perseverance, will probably obtain every advantage and honor his college can...

...before his classmates, combined to make him hate mathematics, science and philosophy. "A lad," he says, "whose passions are not strong enough in youth to...tutors, and not his inclinations, have chalked out, by four or five years' perseverance will probably obtain every advantage and honor his college can...

...colleges are erroneous; and, at best, more frequently enrich the prudent than reward the ingenious. A lad whose passions are not strong enough in youth...tutors, and not his inclinations, have chalked out, by four or five years' perseverance may probably obtain every advantage and honour his college can...