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Page 260
Can you speak of their probable number 1 - At a rough guess I should conceive
they could not contain more than between 100 and 200 children at the very
utmost , altogether . Do you imagine your charities and those charities take in half
of ...
Can you speak of their probable number 1 - At a rough guess I should conceive
they could not contain more than between 100 and 200 children at the very
utmost , altogether . Do you imagine your charities and those charities take in half
of ...
Page 279
Do you conceive very large schools are the best for Sunday schools , or to
increase the number of small ones ?I should consider there was no particular
choice in that respect ; as Sunday schools are divided into classes , the children
being ...
Do you conceive very large schools are the best for Sunday schools , or to
increase the number of small ones ?I should consider there was no particular
choice in that respect ; as Sunday schools are divided into classes , the children
being ...
Page 411
Do you conceive that , after all , a very large proportion of children are
uneducated ? -Very large indeed . Can you state what proportion ? - It is
impossible Much more than half are uneducated , you think ? -Very considerably
more , I should ...
Do you conceive that , after all , a very large proportion of children are
uneducated ? -Very large indeed . Can you state what proportion ? - It is
impossible Much more than half are uneducated , you think ? -Very considerably
more , I should ...
Page 497
Do you conceive it of importance for bettering the condition of the poor , that visits
should frequently be paid among the lower classes of society by respectable
persons ? - I think so ; because it unites the different orders of society together ; it
...
Do you conceive it of importance for bettering the condition of the poor , that visits
should frequently be paid among the lower classes of society by respectable
persons ? - I think so ; because it unites the different orders of society together ; it
...
Page 533
-It applies to children in large towns in the country , where I conceive the same
occasions of evil will present themselves . Does it apply to children in villages in
country places ?According to the occasions of evil it must vary . Then in point of
fact ...
-It applies to children in large towns in the country , where I conceive the same
occasions of evil will present themselves . Does it apply to children in villages in
country places ?According to the occasions of evil it must vary . Then in point of
fact ...
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| Title | Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons Appointed to Inquire Into the Education of the Lower Orders in the Metropolis: With the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee ... to which are Subjoined an Addenda and a Digested Index Volumes 1-4 of Report from Select Committee of the House of Commons Appointed to Inquire Into the Education of the Lower Orders in the Metropolis: With the Minutes of Evidence, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
| Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Education of the Lower Orders |
| Publisher | Gale and Fenner, 1816 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 17 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 610 pages |
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