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Letter XXI. Schools.versial-Inspection-schools. The preachers must be sad bunglers indeed, if they
had not there as many adherents as auditors: which is not always the case in
the world at large. As to Flagellation, flagellation, and other such ceremonies, which more through
custom than necessity, are used by way of punishment in schools, but which under
some institutions form the routine of life, I need not take up upir time in shewing,
how much the punctuality of those transactions might, in the latter case, be enforced,
by the inspection principle. These monastic accomplishments have not been in
fass fashion in our country for some ages: therefore it would be lost labour
to recommend the principle in that view. Neither are they a whit more so where
I write: so that I should get as little thanks for my pains, were I to make
any such proposal here. On the contrary we are disolving dissolving monasteries,
as you would lumps of sugar. A noble lump, for instance, we got t'other
day at Kieff, enough to feed a brace of regiments, besides pickings for
other people. But if, in my return to England, or at any other time, I should
happen to go by the Monastery of La Trappe, or any other where they are
in earnest about such business, it would be cruelty to deny them the
assistance it might be made to receive from the inspection-principle. Flinching
would then be as impracticable in a Monastery, as cribbing in a
school. Old scores might thus be rubbed out with as much regularity
as could be desired: nor would the pride of Toboso have been so long a
disenchanting, could his her Knight have put his coward Squire into an
Inspection-house.
Neither do I mean to give any instructions to the Turks for
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