VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 52 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 52 in Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light When Lord Steyne was benevolently disposed he did nothing by halves and his kindness towards the Crawley family did the greatest honour to his benevolent discrimination. His lordship extended his good-will to little Rawdon he pointed out to the boy s parents the necessity of sending him to a public school that he was of an age now when emulation the first principles of the Latin language pugilistic exercises and the society of his fellow-boys would be of the greatest benefit to the boy. His father objected that he was not rich enough to send the child to a good public school his mother that Briggs was a capital mistress for him and had brought him on as indeed was the fact famously in English the Latin rudiments and in general learning but all these objections disappeared before the generous perseverance of the Marquis of Steyne. His lordship was one of the governors of that famous old collegiate institution called the Whitefriars. It had been a Cistercian Convent in old days when the Smithfield which is contiguous to it was a tournament ground. Obstinate heretics used to be brought thither convenient for burning hard by. Henry VIII the Defender of the Faith seized upon the monastery and its possessions and hanged and tortured some of the monks who could not accommodate themselves to the pace of his reform. Finally a great merchant bought the house and land adjoining in which and with the help of other wealthy endowments of land and money he established a famous foundation hospital for old men and children. An extern school grew round the old almost monastic foundation which subsists still with its middle-age costume and usages and all Cistercians pray that it may long flourish. Of this famous house some of the greatest noblemen prelates and dignitaries in England are governors and as the boys are very comfortably lodged fed and educated and subsequently .
