Transcriber’s Note
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THIS BOOK IS PORNOGRAPHIC IN NATURE AND CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.
THE Convent School, OR EARLY EXPERIENCES OF A YOUNG FLAGELLANT.
BY ROSA BELINDA COOTE.
LONDON: PRIVATELY PRINTED. 1898.
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Salomon said, in accents mild, Spare the rod and spoil the child; Be they man or be they maid, Whip and wallop ’em
The dicta of the Wise Man concerning discipline have been the source of inexpressible dolour to children for very many centuries; and it has only been within the last sixty years that ferocity in the treatment of infants (I am speaking of English children, Jean Jacques Rousseau shamed the French out of the practice of beatingcruel one That admirable woman, the mother of the Wesleys, held that a child should be made to desist from crying and to “fear the rod” at the mature age of twelve months; and Miss Maria Semple, writing on education in 1812, tells a story of a lady who was educated in early years by a relative. “On a certain day in every week she receivedIllustrated London News.