 | Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1805 - 422 pages
...schools in every part of the country. In 1641 the following law was enacted: " If any do not teach their children and apprentices so ,much learning as may enable them to read perfectly the English language, to forfeit twenty shillings ; and the selectmen of .every town are... | |
 | James Gordon Carter - Education - 1824 - 150 pages
...First, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavour to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws : " Also, that all masters... | |
 | Education - 1826 - 788 pages
...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, and knowledge of the capital laws: ' Also, that all masters of... | |
 | Education - 1826 - 782 pages
...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, and knowledge of the capital laws: ' Also, that all masters of... | |
 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...Jllltrfi Biographical Dictionary. * In 1641, the Massachusetts colony enacted, that " If any do not teach their children and apprentices so much learning as may enable them to read ' perfectly the English language, they shall forfeit twenty shillings." Not long afterwards, a la,v... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1828 - 432 pages
...them (the colonists) shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavour to teach, by themselves or others, their children and...learning as may enable them to read the English tongue, and knowledge, of the capital laws." By a reference to the list of colleges given below, it will be... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1837 - 594 pages
...see that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavour to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws." In 1647, being now strong... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1839 - 1066 pages
...neighbors, to see that none of them 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, and knowledge of its laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings."... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1887 - 450 pages
...shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach, by themselves and others, their children and apprentices so much learning as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and a knowledge of the capital laws." Later it was made the duty... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1839 - 220 pages
...neighbors, to see that none of them 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, and obtain a knowledge of its laws, — upon penalty of twenty... | |
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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... 
