EDUCATION OF THE POOR;

BEING THE FIRST PART OF

A DIGEST

OF THE

REPORTS OF THE SOCIETY FOR BETTERING
and - inci casing the comforts

THE CONDITION OF THE POOR London.

AND CONTAINING

A SELECTION OF THOSE ARTICLES

WHICH HAVE

A REFERENCE TO EDUCATION.

Hoc opus, hoc studium parvi properamus et ampli,

Si Patriæ volumus, si nobis vivere cari.

HOR.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY,

BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW;

AND SOLD BY J. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY, AND THE REST OF

THE BOOKSELLERS TO THE SOCIETY.

1809.

[The following Work is entirely selected from the
Reports of the Society, with exception of the Preface,
and of the Articles No. 8, 14, 24, 25, and 28. The
last Paper (No. 28) is written with a view of giving
an example of the facility, with which some of the sug-
gestions in the Reports might be adopted in the habita-
tions of the Poor. Copies of the last Paper, as a
separate publication, are added with a view to Distri-
bution, if the Subscribers should approve it.]

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CONTENTS.

PREFACE

REFACE on the general Education of the Poor,

Selection of Observations from the Reports,

Account of Day Schools at Boldre,

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