abedariums

Updated: June 9, 2025

Only conceive him in blessed weather like this, in his close school, teaching children to write in copy-books, ‘Evil communication corrupts good manners,’ or ‘You cannot touch pitch without defilement,’ or to spell out of Abedariums, or to read out of Jack Smith, or Sandford and Merton.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Only conceive him in blessed weather like this, in his close school, teaching children to write in copy-books, "Evil communication corrupts good manners," or "You cannot touch pitch without defilement," or to spell out of Abedariums, or to read out of Jack Smith, or Sandford and Merton.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Only conceive him in blessed weather like this, in his close school, teaching children to write in copy-books, 'Evil communication corrupts good manners, or 'You cannot touch pitch without defilement, or to spell out of Abedariums, or to read out of Jack Smith, or Sandford and Merton.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest