 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1940 - 576 pages
...read the Scriptures and to write by the time they attain to the age of 12 years, and that they then be taught some useful trade or skill that the poor may work to live, and rhe rich, if they become poor, may not want; of which every county court shall take care. — School... | |
 | John Newton Boucher - Pittsburg (Lancaster County, Pa.) - 1908 - 566 pages
...by the time they attained the age of twelve years ; and that they then be taught some useful trade, that the poor may work to live, and the rich, if they become poor, may not want.'' He fixed a penalty of five pounds to be paid by any parent who would fail to follow the provisions... | |
 | Ella Kent Barnard - 1909 - 442 pages
...the age of twelve years shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end none may be Idle, but the poor may work to live, and the rich If they become poor, may not want." was married to Edward David of Radnor. The certificate is signed by the two fathers, Edward David and... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Charters - 1909 - 718 pages
...the age of twelve years, shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end none may be idle, but the poor may work to live, and the rich, if they become poor, may not want. XXIX. That servants l>e not kept longer than their time, and such as are careful, be both justly and... | |
 | Edith Abbott - United States - 1909 - 438 pages
...the age of twelve years shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end none may be idle, but the poor may work to live and the rich if they become poor may not want."1 In Virginia the employment of children was as distinctly for purposes of gain as it has been... | |
 | Economics - 1910 - 822 pages
...the age of twelve years shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end none may be idle, but the poor may work to live and the rich if they become poor may not want." Virginia shows a worse record than the Puritan States, for "the London Company was not engaged in teaching... | |
 | National Catholic Educational Association - 1913 - 1550 pages
...the age of twelve years shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end none may be idle, but the poor may work to live and the rich, if they become poor, may not want." Within three weeks from the time of his landing, Penn issued writs for an election of members to the... | |
 | William Clinton Heffner - Social Science - 1913 - 312 pages
...the age of twelve up "be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end, that none may be idle, but the poor may work to live and the rich, if they become poor, may not want."(2) This legislation is of exceptional importance, first, because it shows what measures were... | |
 | American literature - 1915 - 328 pages
...the age of twelve years shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end none may be idle, but the poor may work to live and the rich, if they become poor, may not want." Within three weeks from the time of his landing Penn issued writs for an election of members to the... | |
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That all children within this province, of the age of twelve years, shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end none may be idle; but the poor may work to live and the rich, if they become poor, may not want. 
