Vanity fair (1900) (14764745155)

Identifier: vanityfair01thac (find matches)
Title: Vanity fair
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Fiske, Minnie Maddern, Mrs., 1865- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 British Female friendship Social classes Married women
Publisher: New York and Boston, H. M. Caldwell company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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not rich enough to send the child to a goodpublic school; his mother, that Briggs was a capital mistress forhim, and had brought him on (as indeed was the fact) famously inEnglish, the Latin rudiments, and in general learning; but allthese objections disappeared before the generous perseverance ofthe Marquis of Steyne. His lordship was one of the governors ofthat famous old collegiate institution called the Whitefriars. Ithad been a Cistercian convent in old days, when the Smithfield,which is contiguous to it, was a tournament ground. Obstinateheretics used to be brought thither convenient for burning hard by.Henry VIII., the Defender of the Faith, seized upon the monasteryand its possessions, and hanged and tortured some of the monkswho could not accommodate themselves to the pace of his reform.Finally, a great merchant bought the house and land adjoining, inwhich, and with the help of other wealthy endowments of land andmoney, he established a famous foundation hospital for old men
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LORD STEYNE IN AN AMIABLE LIGHT. 577 and children. An extern school grew round the old almostmonastic foundation, which subsists still with its middle-age cos-tume and usages-; and all Cistercians pray that it may longflourish. Of this famous house some of the greatest noblemen, prelates,and dignitaries in England are governors; and as the boys arevery comfortably lodged, fed, and educated, and subsequently in-ducted to good scholarships at the university and livings in thechurch, many little gentlemen are devoted to the ecclesiastical pro-fession from their tenderest years, and there is considerable emula-tion to procure nominations for the foundation. It was originallyintended for the sons of poor and deserving clerics and laics; but*many of the noble governors of the institution, with an enlargedand rather capricious benevolence, selected all sorts of objects for■heir county. To get an education for nothing, and a future liveli-hood and profession assured, was so excellent a sche