Hornbook Quotes

“And yet God made all three.''”

“…walked abroad with ferule and horn-book”

“I come not here to learn the horn-book of war…”

“No wonder that the horn-book is the despair of mothers!”

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“Here
The letters may be read, through the horn,''
That make the story perfect.”

“Wikipedia: Hornbook”

“When little children first are brought to schoole
A Horne-booke is a necessarie toole.”

“Yes, yes, he teaches boys the Horne-booke:
What is Ab speld backward with the horn on its head.”

“Quan a chyld to scole xal set be,
A bok hym is browt,
Naylyd on a brede of tre,
That men callyt an abece''
Pratylych i-wrout.”

“I never lov’d a book of horn,
Nor leaves that have their letters worn;
Nor with a fescue to direct me,
Where every puny shall correct me.”

“Hearkens after prophecies and dreams;
And from the cross-row plucks the letter G,
And says a wizard told him that by G
His issue disinherited should be.”

“I have taught my little master to know his letters and spell a little, as well as I could, out of my Bible; for they have given him neither horn-book nor primmer.''”

“Nor let them fall under Discouragement,
Who at their Horn-book stick, and time hath spent
Upon that A, B, C, while others do
Into their Primer, or their Psalter go.”

“Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the horn-book, turning silk dresses and making children’s frocks.”

“Methinks, you and I should have been born under the same roof, sucked the same milk, conned the same horn-book, thumbed the same Testament together; for we have been more than sisters, Maria!”

“Potentially—
As every christened rogue’s a child of God,
Or those old hags, Christ’s brides—Think of your horn-book—
The world, the flesh, and the devil—a goodly leash!
”

“…if I keep sinking from one abyss of ignorance to another, with a velocity proportionable to what I have letely done, I must soon turn back to the first foundation of all human learning, a horn-book.”

“Lo! now with State she utters the Command,
Eftsoons the Urchins to their Tasks repair:
Their Books of Stature small they take in Hand,
Which with pellucid horn secured are,
To save from finger wet the Letters fair…''”

“None but imprison’d children now
Are seen, where dames with angry brow
Threaten each younker to his seat,
Who through the window, eyes the street;
Or from his horn-book turns away,
To mourn for liberty and play.”