Narrative of the Failure of an Attempt to Establish a Great National Institution, Intended, More Especially, for the Reception of Orphan Children of Officers of the British Army: But So Constituted as to Form, at the Same Time, a Highly Respectable Yet EC
Narrative of the Failure of an Attempt to Establish a Great National Institution, Intended, More Especially, for the Reception of Orphan Children of Officers of the British Army: But So Constituted as to Form, at the Same Time, a Highly Respectable Yet EC
Excerpt from Narrative of the Failure of an Attempt to Establish a Great National Institution, Intended, More Especially, for the Reception of Orphan Children of Officers of the British Army: But So Constituted as to Form, at the Same Time, a Highly Respectable Yet Economical Seminary, for the Education of Officers Sons and Daughters, in General Not only, however, have all these hopes been doomed to be disappoint ed, but I have lately had the additional mortitication of noticing??? in a Canadian journal, a brief notice of ...
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Excerpt from Narrative of the Failure of an Attempt to Establish a Great National Institution, Intended, More Especially, for the Reception of Orphan Children of Officers of the British Army: But So Constituted as to Form, at the Same Time, a Highly Respectable Yet Economical Seminary, for the Education of Officers Sons and Daughters, in General Not only, however, have all these hopes been doomed to be disappoint ed, but I have lately had the additional mortitication of noticing??? in a Canadian journal, a brief notice of'a Repmt of the G01 ernors of that preposed great National Institution, the Vl ellinfrton Colleoe, from which it would appear that the subscnptions exeee 011 ???3 l0 000??? that of this sum ???20 000 are to be devoted to the erection ofthe 1equired building5??? and that the remainder-so vested as to yield an annual revenue of about ???3000, -is to form the foundation on which it is preposed to maintain, clethe, and educate, in the hrst instance, only 60 boys, giving a preference to orphans, divided into three classes of 20 boys, each paying ???10, ???15, or ???20, according to the class to which he belongs; and that there shall hereafter be a further extension of the original design, (1) to a fourth class consisting of4so boys, each paying ???30 per annum thus making 100 pupils 1n all, contributing from ???10 to ???30 each! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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