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Title: Confessions of an Etonian

Author: I. E. M.

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Language: English

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THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ETONIAN.

by

I. E. M.

London
Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street.
1846.

"To preserve the past is half of immortality."

D'ISRAELI THE ELDER.

PREFACE.

The author is anxious to request any person who may meet with this
trifling volume to bear in mind that it contains the memoir of an
unworthy member of the place to which it alludes--that many years have
now elapsed since he quitted the spot where its regulations with
regard to education have been as much altered as improved. For Eton!
"my heart is thine though my shadow falls on a distant land." But
should these pages influence the judgment of any mi