Deterioration and Race Education: With Practical Application to the Condition of the People and IndustryLee and Shepard, 1877 - 585 pages |
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Page 532 - I say that if the nation could purchase a potential Watt, or Davy, or Faraday, at the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money. It is a mere commonplace and everyday piece of knowledge, that what these three men did has produced untold millions of wealth, in the narrowest economical sense of the word.
Page 187 - The poet or philosopher illustrates his age and country by the efforts of a single mind; but these superior powers of reason or fancy are rare and spontaneous productions; and the genius of Homer, or Cicero, or Newton, would excite less admiration if they could be created by the will of a prince or the lessons of a preceptor.
Page 196 - that the floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lies unmolested an ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and everything that is nasty'.
Page 130 - On the broad and firm foundation of health alone can the loftiest and most enduring structures of the intellect be reared...
Page 158 - 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.
Page 520 - Whereas all the parts of this realm of England and Wales be presently with rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars exceedingly pestered, by means whereof daily happeneth in the same realm horrible murders, thefts, and other great outrage, to the high displeasure of Almighty God, and to the great annoyance of the common weale...
Page 76 - ... Two grandsons condemned for life to hard labor for robbery and murder; one grandson condemned to death ; one great-grandson transported for robbery ; one great-grandson died in prison guilty of many robberies ; one great-grandson died falling from a roof he was scaling in the attempt of robbery ; one great-grandson died guilty of many robberies ; two great-granddaughters died in prison, where they were sent for theft ; one great-greatgrandson condemned to death for murder and robbery. Bruce Thompson...
Page 140 - The infant school, therefore, must be something different from a mere play or singing school ; and, least of all, must the children be crammed. Infant schools cannot but become worse than useless when children are taught in them in the manner of: G, is for Goshen, a rich and good land, H, is for Horeb, where Moses stand. I, is for Italy, where Rome stands so fair. J, is for Joppa, and Peter lodged there.
Page 372 - The high brick blocks and closely -packed houses where the mobs originated seemed to be literally hives of sickness and vice. It was wonderful to see, and difficult to believe, that so much misery, disease, and wretchedness can be huddled together and hidden by high walls, unvisited and unthought of, so near our own abodes.
Page 443 - The following table contains the venereal cases in the various public institutions of the metropolis in the year 1857: Penitentiary Hospita, Blackwell's Island . . 2,090 Almshouse, Blackwell's Island 52 Work-house " " 56 Penitentiary " " 430 Bellevue Hospital 768 Nursery Hospital, Randall's Island .... 734 New York State Emigrants' Hospital, Ward's Island 559 New York Hospital, Broadway 405 New York Dispensary, Centre Street . . . 1,580 Northern " Waverley Place . . 327 Eastern " Ludlow Street ....