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" I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying, dialling, navigation ; but agriculture is especially in my eye : let my children be husbandmen and housewives ; it is industrious, healthy, honest, and of... "
The Life of William Penn: The Settler of Pennsylvania, the Founder of ... - Page 121
by Mason Locke Weems - 1859 - 208 pages
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Contributions to American Educational History, Volume 15

Herbert Baxter Adams - Education - 1893 - 224 pages
...Pennsylvania, 95, 96. industry is good for the body and mind too. I recommend the useful part of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...agriculture is especially in my eye ; let my children bo husbandmen and housewives; it is industrious, healthy, honest, and of good example.1 THE FIRST LEGISLATION...
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Historical Sketches of the Reign of Queen Anne

Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - Great Britain - 1894 - 436 pages
...and sparingly till my debts are paid.' In education he recommends ' the useful part of mathematics in building houses or ships, measuring, surveying, dialling,...industrious, healthy, honest, and of good example.' The children he exhorts to the fear of God, to live sober and moderate lives, to obey their mother,...
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History and Civil Government of Pennsylvania and the Government of the ...

Burke Aaron Hinsdale, M. L. Hinsdale - Pennsylvania - 1899 - 382 pages
...mixed with industry is good for the body and mind, too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...industrious, healthy, honest, and of good example." I I. Penn Purchases Pennsylvania. — In June, 1680, Penn prayed the King, Charles II., to grant to...
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The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three ..., Volume 2

Henry Coppée - Literature - 1900 - 588 pages
...mixed with industry is good for the body and the mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ¡ ships, measuring, surveying,...husbandmen and housewives — it is industrious, healthy, hon| est and of good example — like Abraham and the holy ancients, who pleased God and obtained a...
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William Penn

George Hodges - Pennsylvania - 1901 - 158 pages
...get into my family." They are to be carefully taught. "For their learning be liberal, spare no cost." "Agriculture is especially in my eye ; let my children...industrious, healthy, honest, and of good example." They are to honor and obey their mother, to love not money nor the world, to be temperate in all things....
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Early Quaker Education in Pennsylvania, Issue 105

Thomas Woody - Education - 1920 - 320 pages
...building houses, or ships, measuring, surveying, dialing, navigation; but agriculture especially is my eye. Let my children be husbandmen and housewives;...industrious, healthy, honest and of good example, . . .' His preference, as might be expected from an Englishman of that time, was for a tutorial system...
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Quaker Contributions to Education in North Carolina ...

Zora Klain - Education - 1925 - 366 pages
...and children on that subject in 1682, Penn emphasizes: liberal learning . . . useful knowledge, . . . surveying, dialling, navigation; but agriculture is...eye: let my children be husbandmen and housewives . . .'• In addition to these constructive recommendations on education offered by Quaker leaders,...
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Rebel Saints

Mary Agnes Best - Quakers - 1925 - 400 pages
...encouraged as promote usefulness, honesty and industry, as navigation, the building of ships and of houses, but " agriculture is especially in my eye. Let my, children be husbandmen and housewives." To promote family affection, " Allow them to send and give each other small things, to endear one another."...
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The Development of Agriculture in New Jersey, 1640-1880 ...

Carl Raymond Woodward - Agriculture - 1927 - 332 pages
...building houses or ships, measuring, surveying, dialing, navigation ; but agriculture especially is my eye. Let my children be husbandmen and housewives ; it is industrious, healthy, honest and of good example.7 Thomas Budd also came out in a positive manner for vocational education, and presented a...
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Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of ..., Volume 2

United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1895 - 956 pages
...mixed with industry is good for the body and mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...agriculture is especially in my eye. Let my children bo husbandmen and housewives ; it is industrious, healthy, honest, and of good example. At a later...
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