 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners - 1838 - 386 σελίδες
...patient and skilful industry. An orphan or deserted child, educated from infancy to the age of 12 or 14 in a workhouse, if taught reading, writing and arithmetic...would therefore have acquired no skill ; he would be[effeminate, and, what is worse, the great practical lesson in patient and skilful industry, which... | |
 | 1839 - 582 σελίδες
...patient and skilful industry. Au orphan or deserted child, educated from infancy to the age of 12 or 14, in a workhouse, if taught reading, writing and arithmetic...skill; he would be effeminate; and, what is worse, the habits of industry, which he might have acquired had he been so fortunate as to live beneath the roof... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1849 - 356 σελίδες
...labouring-class, is the rearing of intelligent and hardy working-men, whose character and habits may afford the largest amount of security to the property...workhouse, if taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, is generally unfitted for earning his livelihood by labour. Under such a system he would never have... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1849 - 358 σελίδες
...those whose sole dependence for their living is on the labour of their hands), by early hahituating them to patient and skilful industry. 'An orphan or...workhouse, if taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, is generally unfitted for earning his livelihood by labour. Under such a system he would never have... | |
 | 1855 - 1428 σελίδες
...and wearies his mintlHe has formed a completely false conception of the life that awaited hiui.' ' An orphan or deserted child educated from infancy to the age of 12 or 14 in a workhouse' (says Sir JP Kay Shuttleworth) ' if taught readirg, writing, and arithmetic... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1862 - 898 σελίδες
...Assistant Poor Law Commissioners, from* which some extracts may be taken. Dr. James Phillips Kay says, "An orphan or deserted child, educated from infancy...fourteen, in a workhouse, if taught reading, writing, or arithmetic only, is generally unfitted for earning his livelihood by labour. Under such a system... | |
 | 1861 - 804 σελίδες
...reference to the full development of the power to labor—of the thews and sinews of the laborer. " An orphan or deserted child educated from infancy to the age of twelve or fourteen in a workhouse." (says Sir JP Kay Shuttleworth,) '• if taught reading, writing, and arithmetic only, is generally... | |
 | 1861 - 798 σελίδες
...hardship, their masters, objects of aversion, and they rarely acquire habits of industry in after-life." " An orphan or deserted child educated from infancy to the age of twelve or fourteen in a workhouse." (says Sir JP Kay Shuttleworth,) " if taught reading, writing, and arithmetic only, is generally unfitted... | |
 | Charles Alpheus Bennett - 1926 - 472 σελίδες
...patient and skilful industry. An orphan or deserted child, educated from infancy to the age of 12 or 14, in a workhouse, if taught reading, writing, and arithmetic...skill; he would be effeminate; and, what is worse, the habits of industry, which he might have acquired had he been so fortunate as to live beneath the roof... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1839 - 578 σελίδες
...patient and skilful industry. An orphan or deserted child, educated from infancy to the age of 12 or 14, in a workhouse, if taught reading, writing and arithmetic...'' set to work." He would, therefore, have acquired 110 skill ; he would be effeminate ; and, what is worse, the habits of industry, which he might have... | |
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An orphan or deserted child, educated from infancy to the age of 12 or 14, in a workhouse, if taught reading, writing, and arithmetic only, is generally unfitted for earning his livelihood by labour. 