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In England, schoolboys came to call a whopping exaggeration a “Marco Polo.”
I cannot however be compared to Japanese schoolboys: I have never been to Japan, and I am self-taught; I can read and write Japanese (slowly) for I did learn both the Katakana and Hiragana syllabaries (47 signs each) as well as a few thousand Chinese characters.
Mr. Quelch, form master of the Remove, was a beast, but a just beast, a phrase echoed by many schoolboys of that era.
Thus, numerous trans-alphabetic glossaries—Greek-Latin, LatinGreek, Hebrew-Latin, Arabic-Coptic, and ArabicGreek—once thought to be schoolboys' exercises, are probably elementary aids for tourists, pilgrims, and businessmen.
One might quarrel with an occasional comment (like, [The Techne ] might be said to have become the basis of every Greek textbook that schoolboys, in England and elsewhere, would face until the year 1000, which must have encompassed a relatively small number), but such are few and far between in the earlier chapters of the book.