Publisher's Synopsis
In the year 1809 George III appointed as Headmaster of Eton, Dr. Keate, a terrible little man who considered the flogging-block a necessary station on the road to per-fection, and who ended a sermon on the Sixth Beatitude by saying, "Now, boys, be pure in heart! For if not, I‟ll flog you until you are!"The county gentlemen and merchant princes who put their sons under his care were not displeased by such a specimen of pious ferocity, nor could they think lightly of the man who had birched half the ministers, bishops, generals, and dukes in the kingdom.
