 | 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 required to know the state... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1868 - 766 pages
...a vigilant eye over their brothers and neighbors, to see, .first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families as not to...and apprentices so much learning as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings... | |
 | Education - 1826 - 782 pages
...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...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 - 788 pages
...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...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 was made, that when any... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1828 - 432 pages
...of 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...apprentices so much 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... | |
 | 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...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
...shall have a vigilant eye over their • bretheren and neighbors, to see that none of them suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to...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."... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1839 - 224 pages
...dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see that none of them suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to...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... | |
 | Education - 1839 - 636 pages
...dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see that none of them suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to...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... 
