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... Massachusetts , from 1635 to 1846. " In their preface they acknowledged its frag- mentary character , and pointed out the sources where light might be looked for , and urged its completion . In the year 1875 a fortunate stimulus was ...
... Massachusetts , from 1635 to 1846. " In their preface they acknowledged its frag- mentary character , and pointed out the sources where light might be looked for , and urged its completion . In the year 1875 a fortunate stimulus was ...
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... Massachusetts Historical Society's volume on the Early History of Massachusetts says : A grammar school was then understood to be a school in which the Latin and Greek languages were taught . The following interesting article by the Rev ...
... Massachusetts Historical Society's volume on the Early History of Massachusetts says : A grammar school was then understood to be a school in which the Latin and Greek languages were taught . The following interesting article by the Rev ...
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... Massachusetts Historical Society for Feb- ruary , 1873 , gives reasons for believing that the establishment of this School was largely due to the influence of the Rev. John Cot- ton , who came to this country in 1633 from Boston in ...
... Massachusetts Historical Society for Feb- ruary , 1873 , gives reasons for believing that the establishment of this School was largely due to the influence of the Rev. John Cot- ton , who came to this country in 1633 from Boston in ...
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... Massachusetts having at a previous period granted to the Town of Boston several of the Islands in the harbor , the Records state , that , in 1641 : This 10th of the 11th moneth , It's ordered that Deare Island shall be improved for the ...
... Massachusetts having at a previous period granted to the Town of Boston several of the Islands in the harbor , the Records state , that , in 1641 : This 10th of the 11th moneth , It's ordered that Deare Island shall be improved for the ...
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... Massachusetts , was not intended the Common or Public School , as afterwards developed , particularly in Massachusetts , supported by tax , and free of all charge to all scholars , rich and poor ; neither was it a charity school ...
... Massachusetts , was not intended the Common or Public School , as afterwards developed , particularly in Massachusetts , supported by tax , and free of all charge to all scholars , rich and poor ; neither was it a charity school ...
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Page 105 - ... to endeavor to lead their pupils, as their ages and capacities will admit, into a clear understanding of the tendency of the above-mentioned virtues to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty, as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices.
Page 6 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from the use of tongues...
Page 6 - It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 105 - It shall be the duty of the president, professors, and tutors of the University at Cambridge, and of the several colleges, and of all preceptors and teachers of academies, and all other instructors of youth, to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love...
Page 51 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Page 99 - It was then generally agreed upon, that our brother Philemon Purmont shall be instructed to become schoolmaster for the teaching and nurturing of children with us.
Page 6 - And it is further ordered, that where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 105 - Instruction, the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation, and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...
Page 17 - Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are ; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah have all the praise.
Page 97 - The learned class were indeed an order of nobility among them. " Child," said a high-spirited New England matron to her little boy, " if God make thee a good Christian and a good scholar, thou hast all that thy mother ever asked for thee.