Education of the Lower Orders. a Second Letter to Samuel Whitbread ... Containing Observations on His Bill for the Establishment of Parochial Schools in South Britian
Education of the Lower Orders. a Second Letter to Samuel Whitbread ... Containing Observations on His Bill for the Establishment of Parochial Schools in South Britian
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 Excerpt: ...such persons undertake the education of the children of members of the establish-" ment, they must be considered as violating the spirit of the law, and as abusing a privilege which ought to excite their gratitude. It will scarcely be contended by those, who are for conceding to the Romanists the full measure of their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 Excerpt: ...such persons undertake the education of the children of members of the establish-" ment, they must be considered as violating the spirit of the law, and as abusing a privilege which ought to excite their gratitude. It will scarcely be contended by those, who are for conceding to the Romanists the full measure of their present political claims, that dissenters of this description ought to be subjected, as to the instruction of youth, io greater restrictions than Protestant dissenters. This would be at once strangely inconsistent and grossly illiberal. If a.Romanist-should, as such persons maintain, be rendered admissible to the situations of Commander in Chief, Lord High Admiral, Lord Chief Justice, and Lord Chancellor and Keeper of the King's Conscience, surely he cannot, in their opinion at least, be more unfit than a Protestant dis, senter, to be entrusted with the education pf any portion of the youth of the country, 31 Geo. III. c, 32. s. 15. These are not times in which to expect a bishop's license to be again made a necessary qualification for schoolmasters of every.denomination. Such an act would require more energy, more manly firmness, more prudent foresight, more rational solicitude for the institutions and welfare of the country, than can be expected in this liberal age. But the evil of which we have such just cause to complain would be considerably diminished, if the laws still in being were regularly enforced; if every person instructing or teaching youth in any private school or family, and not coming within the scope of the laws respecting dissenters, were to be obliged regularly to obtain such a license, and to subscribe the declaration of conformity to the Liturgy of the Church, as the law still requires all such persons u dp, Such an ...
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