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As Nicholas Nickleby very justly remarked, If Dotheboy's Hall is not a hall, why call it one? Mr. Squeers, in his reply, no doubt stated the law of the case: If a man chooses to call his house an island, what is to hinder him?
Segnius irritant you know! What disciple of old Plunkett's will ever forget the difference between the demissa per aurem, and "quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus!" I have always maintained that his illustration of this great principle gave Dickens the hint of his Dotheboy's Hall.
This passion which sulphur entertains for silver is very strong, as every one knows who has ever been under that wholesome discipline which had its weekly recurrence at the delightful institution of Dotheboy's Hall; and what Anglo-Saxon ever grew up, innocent of that delectable vernal medicine to which we refer?
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