Parliamentary Papers, Volumen21,Parte3

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Página 484 - ... keepers of small eating-houses, of mangles, or of small lodging-houses ; needlewomen, who take in plain or slop work ; milliners ; consumptive patients in an advanced stage; cripples almost bedridden; persons of at least doubtful temperance ; outdoor paupers ; men and women of seventy and even eighty years of age ; persons who spell badly (mostly women, I grieve to say), who can scarcely .write, and who cannot cipher at all...
Página 285 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 282 - through the grace of God which was given to him, not to think of themselves more highly than they ought to think, but to think soberly, according as God had dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Página 483 - Hodgson* found evidence (parts of which have been already quoted) to justify the assertion, that " none are too old, too poor, too ignorant, too feeble, too sickly, " too unqualified in any or every way, to regard themselves, and " to be regarded by others, as unfit for school-keeping.
Página 565 - I see no relation between the means and the end, the cause and the effect it is supposed to be capable of producing.
Página 94 - I took various opportunities of ascertaining from working men themselves, their opinion as to the value of education. When I asked them whether education was of any use to their children, they seemed to doubt whether I was serious; or if they supposed that I was, they seemed to consider the question rather insulting.
Página 79 - That, for the purpose of extending such means, it is expedient that the powers at present possessed by the Commissioners of Charitable Trusts be enlarged, and that the funds now useless or injurious to the public be applied to the education of the middle and poorer classes of the community.
Página 282 - My decided impression,' says Mr. Hare, ' is that the systems of training have been very successful, both in adapting the students to teach, and in furnishing them with solid matter and good method of instruction. As a class, they are marked, both men and women, by a quickness of eye and ear, a quiet energy, a facility of command, and a patient self-control, which, with rare exceptions, are not observed in the private instructors of the poor.
Página 38 - The boys and girls who are inmates of the workhouse shall, for three of the working hours at least, every day, be instructed in reading, writing, arithmetic, and the principles of the Christian religion, and such other instruction shall be imparted to them as may fit them for service, and train them to habits of usefulness, industry, and virtue.
Página 83 - ... persons who have taken to teaching as a last resource, and who, in the most favourable circumstances, can expect to realize only a very small income from the school-fees of their pupils. The children are collected together, it may be, in the one room which is the only apartment of the schoolmistress. " Scholars may often be seen sitting round the sides of a four-post bed on low forms, the sides of the bed forming a back to the seat ; sometimes on the sides of the bed. . . . The room is often...

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