Parliamentary Papers, Volym 51

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Sida 27 - And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
Sida 90 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue...
Sida 67 - THE third and last duty of the sovereign or commonwealth is that of erecting and maintaining those public institutions and those public works, which, though they may be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are, however, of such a nature, that the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, and which it therefore cannot be expected that any individual or small number of individuals should erect or maintain.
Sida 90 - And further that all parents and masters do breed and bring up their children and apprentices in some honest, lawful calling, labor, or employment, either in husbandry or some other trade profitable for themselves and the commonwealth, if they will not, nor can not, train them up in learning to fit them for higher employments...
Sida 201 - Of these 173, 17 have died, 12 have been sent back to their prisons for misconduct, and 144 have been placed out in various situations in the world. Of the 144 thus placed out, 7 have relapsed into crime, 9 are of doubtful character, and 128 are conducting themselves to the full satisfaction of the directors and of the 'patrons,' under whose superintendence they have been placed.
Sida 71 - Committee concurs with some of the most experienced witnesses they have examined, in the opinion that a great majority of convicted prisoners are open to the same good motives and good impulses which influence other human beings, and therefore that a system of encouragement to good conduct and endeavours to inspire feelings of self-respect, self-reliance, and hopefulness for the future, which have been tried in some of our largest establishments, ought to be adopted, so far as it is practicable without...
Sida 105 - State, 5 specifying the state of the buildings, the behaviour and conduct of the Officers of the Prison and of the Convicts, and the expense of such Prison, and such other matters relating to the discipline and management of such Prison as they shall deem expedient, or as the Secretary of State shall direct...
Sida 57 - ... properly, forbid all luxuries, especially such as foster habits of expense. At dinner he may ask for at least a little beer, but he is again refused ; and he finds that, however much against his will, he has suddenly become a member of a total abstinence society. As for opportunities of gambling, he has neither anything to stake nor any person with whom to play. " When it is considered how painful an effort is generally necessary to break through a single bad habit, it may be judged how much...
Sida 90 - In 1642, the General Court of the colony, by a public act, enjoined upon the municipal authorities the duty of seeing that every child, within their respective jurisdictions, should be educated.
Sida 32 - At the beginning of April, 1850, there were issued from the ' London Press,' to be continued in weekly numbers, at a penny and three half-pence each, one hundred separate publications. Of these, sixty were wholly works of fiction and ribaldry. Of the professed works of fiction, a great number were of the '.Jack Sheppard ' school, such as 'The Freebooters;' 'Dick Turpin ;' 'The Bold Smuggler;' 'Paul Jones;' 'Gentleman Jack ;' ' The Brigand ;

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