A History of the Origin and Progress of Adult Schools: With an Account of Some of the Beneficial Effects Already Produced on the Moral Character of the Labouring Poor; Also, Considerations on the Important Advantages They are Likely to be Productive of to Society at Large; with an Appendix, Containing Rules for the Government of Adult School Societies, and for the Organization of the Schools, &c., &c |
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... able to teach them to read ; and the man who should have un- dertaken to effect this object , would have subjected himself to the ridicule of his neighbours ; but happy will it be for tens of thousands , I trust I may say , that there ...
... able to teach them to read ; and the man who should have un- dertaken to effect this object , would have subjected himself to the ridicule of his neighbours ; but happy will it be for tens of thousands , I trust I may say , that there ...
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... read a little . I examined the scholars several times . Some of their parents , when we had done , came to me with ... able , by the help of glasses , to see the letters . As the adults have no time to lose , we endeavour ( before they can ...
... read a little . I examined the scholars several times . Some of their parents , when we had done , came to me with ... able , by the help of glasses , to see the letters . As the adults have no time to lose , we endeavour ( before they can ...
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... able to read , very imperfectly , some easy parts of the Bible , without knowing the Welsh of it . Welsh Bibles had also been circulated among them . Upon one occasion , in North Wales , when the Circulating School began , the teacher ...
... able to read , very imperfectly , some easy parts of the Bible , without knowing the Welsh of it . Welsh Bibles had also been circulated among them . Upon one occasion , in North Wales , when the Circulating School began , the teacher ...
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... able to read . " The requisite steps for that purpose were resolved upon , and a subscription entered into . One school is also opened at Bradnich , in the same county . Schools of this kind are likewise established in London ; Uxbridge ...
... able to read . " The requisite steps for that purpose were resolved upon , and a subscription entered into . One school is also opened at Bradnich , in the same county . Schools of this kind are likewise established in London ; Uxbridge ...
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... able to read , they will easily discover the igno- rant state they are in , as well as the loss they have hitherto sustained for want of the learning they now have an opportunity of acquiring . " Great examples are in vain , " Where ...
... able to read , they will easily discover the igno- rant state they are in , as well as the loss they have hitherto sustained for want of the learning they now have an opportunity of acquiring . " Great examples are in vain , " Where ...
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