Of the Education of the Poor;: Being the First Part of a Digest of the Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor: and Containing a Selection of Those Articles which Have a Reference to Education..Society, 1809 - 376 páginas Compilation of reports on specific schools, industry schools, Sunday schools and endowed schools, together with a long essay on the "general education of the poor" by Thomas Bernard, and reports on the education of the poor in Ireland and in Scotland. |
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Página 109
... mistress first reads the question ; and then each girl , in turn , the answer ; and I am much deceived by appearances , and ex- tremely mistaken in my conjectures , if the religious instruction , which they are now re- ceiving at an ...
... mistress first reads the question ; and then each girl , in turn , the answer ; and I am much deceived by appearances , and ex- tremely mistaken in my conjectures , if the religious instruction , which they are now re- ceiving at an ...
Página 119
... mistresses ; after them the clergyman , who was to preach , the vicar of the parish , and some of the neighbour- ing clergy , two and two . Then followed Miss Martha More , one of the patronesses , and her sister Mrs. More , of Bath ...
... mistresses ; after them the clergyman , who was to preach , the vicar of the parish , and some of the neighbour- ing clergy , two and two . Then followed Miss Martha More , one of the patronesses , and her sister Mrs. More , of Bath ...
Página 127
... mistresses for knitting and spinning , at eight shillings a week each ; and a master shoe maker , whose salary ( arising out of an allowance of twopence a pair for finishing the shoes ; and in fact decucted out of his scholars ...
... mistresses for knitting and spinning , at eight shillings a week each ; and a master shoe maker , whose salary ( arising out of an allowance of twopence a pair for finishing the shoes ; and in fact decucted out of his scholars ...
Página 151
... mistresses ; dividing between them the charge of two hundred and forty children , col- lected in three separate schools ; each of which occupies one of the three upper floors of the house : floors which , it must be confessed , are not ...
... mistresses ; dividing between them the charge of two hundred and forty children , col- lected in three separate schools ; each of which occupies one of the three upper floors of the house : floors which , it must be confessed , are not ...
Página 154
... mistress , these schools have , within nine months from the first proposal of them , been established with a suc- cess which promises increase both in number and effect . It may be proper to inform the visitor of the school , that if he ...
... mistress , these schools have , within nine months from the first proposal of them , been established with a suc- cess which promises increase both in number and effect . It may be proper to inform the visitor of the school , that if he ...
Términos y frases comunes
advantages annual attend average number Bamburgh Castle behaviour Bell's benefit benevolent better Bible Bishop Bishop of Durham blessing Blue Coat School Boldre boys Briggs Campsall character charity Cheltenham School chil child Christian church clothing conduct cottage DAY SCHOOLS dren duty effect employed employment England established evil exertion expense female funds girls guineas habits heritors holy orders hundred improvement increased individual instruction Ireland Jones Kendal knitting labour ladies lesson Lewisham master means ment mind mistress moral neighbourhood neighbours number of children OAKHAM object observed parents parish parochial persons possess present principles produce pupils receive religion religious religious habits Reports respect rewards rice milk salary scholars school of industry schoolmaster Scotland shew shillings sister society spinning struction Sunday schools superintendants supply system of education taught teach teachers tickets tion twelve virtue week workhouse writing youth
Pasajes populares
Página 91 - A thing which delighteth all ages and beseemeth all states; a thing as seasonable in grief as in joy; as decent being added unto actions of greatest weight and solemnity, as being used when men most sequester themselves from action.
Página 297 - OBJECT in life, to have a conscience void of offence towards GOD, and towards man...
Página 9 - ... the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages.
Página 291 - God ; every mouth must be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God; therefore, by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh living be justified in His sight.
Página 90 - ... a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually...
Página 47 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 89 - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister.
Página 162 - In addition to this, the same trouble which teaches twenty, will suffice to teach sixty or a hundred, by employing some of the senior boys to inspect the slates of the others, they not omitting to spell the word themselves ; and, on a signal given by them to the principal teacher, that the word is finished by all the boys they overlook, he is informed when to dictate another to the class. This experiment has been...
Página 270 - That every Town within this Province, having the Number of Fifty Householders or upwards, shall be constantly provided of a School-Master to teach Children and Youth to read and write. And where any Town or Towns have the Number of one Hundred Families or Householders, there shall also be a Grammar School set up in every such Town, and some discreet Person of good Conversation, well instructed in the Tongues, procured to keep such School. Every such School-Master to be suitably encouraged and paid...
Página 149 - In order to dispose our hearts to devotion, the active life is to be preferred to the contemplative. To be doing good to mankind, disposes the soul most powerfully to devotion. And indeed, we are surrounded with motives to piety and devotion, if we would but mind them. The poor are designed to excite our liberality ; the miserable, our pity ; the sick, our assistance ; the ignorant, our instruction ; those that are fallen, our helping hand. In...