The English Journal of Education, Volume 4Darton and Clark, 1850 - Education |
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* * * * * * I had occasion to remark to a poor old woman who looks after the sewing , that I thought the girls were employed more at sampler work than was necessary . She tells me that they will not work cheerfully at anything else ...
* * * * * * I had occasion to remark to a poor old woman who looks after the sewing , that I thought the girls were employed more at sampler work than was necessary . She tells me that they will not work cheerfully at anything else ...
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... poor children more than anything else . To - morrow , then , we shall assemble at ten , and keep school till three . The Romish school adopts this plan , and I have no doubt it will be found better than our present mode of breaking up ...
... poor children more than anything else . To - morrow , then , we shall assemble at ten , and keep school till three . The Romish school adopts this plan , and I have no doubt it will be found better than our present mode of breaking up ...
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... poor lads out in the middle of the day to shiver in some corner , for their parents are seldom at home until the afternoon . Few of them have a meal in the middle of the day , and that can easily be despatched in five minutes ...
... poor lads out in the middle of the day to shiver in some corner , for their parents are seldom at home until the afternoon . Few of them have a meal in the middle of the day , and that can easily be despatched in five minutes ...
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... poor ignorant outcasts , and they must be treated accordingly . When I speak of punishments , I would not be considered as using that term in the sense which it bears in a good public school , for anything so severe could not be ...
... poor ignorant outcasts , and they must be treated accordingly . When I speak of punishments , I would not be considered as using that term in the sense which it bears in a good public school , for anything so severe could not be ...
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... poor and ignorant , it was well that they should return and drink of the old fountain , and meet the friends of the institution , who had come together to show them that their labours were appreciated by the learned , the good , and the ...
... poor and ignorant , it was well that they should return and drink of the old fountain , and meet the friends of the institution , who had come together to show them that their labours were appreciated by the learned , the good , and the ...
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Page 323 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
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