Cornhill Magazine,  3 (1861), 636–40.

Roundabout Papers.—No. XII. On Being Found Out

[William M Thackeray]

Genre:

Regular Feature, Editorial, Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Religion, Controversy


    In imagining 'everybody who does wrong being found out, and punished accordingly', the narrator comments, 'After the young gentlemen have had their turn [at being whipped] for their faulty exercises, fancy Dr. Lincolnsinn being taken up for certain faults in his Essay and Review' (637).


Reprinted:

Thackeray 1863


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