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left cj ^ ejpy o the ^ re those who are to obtain a livelihood by ttjeirsuperiritendancs . The Grey £ pat School sli York * which was endqw . ed seventy years before , to board , clothe , and instruct twenty girls , and had flourished while
under the immediate direction of its founders , was during a visit which she paid to that city in the year 1780 , frequently mentioned in her bearing 4 < in terms of deep regret ; few of the girls , it was affirmed , turned out well , of the
m ^ iiy m were sickly , and their * whole appearance extremely tftiiavourable . Mentioning this subject / ' continues Mrs . Cappe , " to i | medical gentleman of great re ^ ij ^ taibility in this city , the late
Rlr-f Garencieres , who for many y ^ T $ ^ tend ^ d the school professi 4 | p ^ Jty ^ he acknowledged and lamentedJhat the general opinion ^^ h ( it ^| oQ just ; adding , that to nj $ kytin , knowledge , there were at tfeit time nine wretched beings who had been educated in it , upon the town , the miserable victims of
\ $ lfoi $$£ Mis . G * came to reside ittvY < Hk , Mid having in concur-^ nce M ^ tb sgmti other ladies sue * cvmbttty established a day-school , fer spnuuyg and reading , the go . yfiVmm of t h e Grev Goat school
rfqi ) e $£ &d iheir advice respecting ^ I f ^ aWt iona so much wanted fllei&i » ad iheir assistance in put . tingMte , ™ in execution . & $ hftk deplorable condition in which , on minute inspection , this to
| emijnj ; a ^ y pppved be , should Forq )) l y incite all who share in l | e ^> e ^ pn » ijbijity attached to the dirm ^ rs , of such . iosiitutiuns ^ to y 5 ? ^ ' £ ^ 4 Nv | at . wiuhumanely desigucd ^ 3 ^ ^ f ^ fit to tti cyqjip ^ v& i *! m * m *^ Um ***** jfa ^^ K
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n ^ g liect pr mismanagement become their bane ! « ' We found" ( says our aqthor , ) the children , thirty in number , generally diseased both in body and mind ; their appear * ance sickly and dejected ; and their ignorance so deplorable , that few , if any of them , could count as far as twenty . Their moral depravity was described by tbe new master and mistress as still more wretched $ —we were told that they had not the slightest regard to truth ; that they seemed to have no idea , or at least paid no sort of respect , to the right of
property—the greater part of them making a practice of stealing vvhafc > ever might come within their reach , such as bread , soap , or candles ; and of constantly denying tfee faults they daily committed ^ and they added , that although there
were then two girls in the school aged 14 , who had been in it seven years , and twelve from 14 to 16 , who had been in it six years , there was not any one that could pos f sibly be recommended , or thaf would be received into any decent family . " i
We must refqr our readers to the work itself , for the lucid and interesting account which is give a of the new regulations , which were , though not without consii derable difficulty , at length in *
troduced and put in full activi ty * by this highly commendable ban 4 of females ; and for the gratifying contrast which at the end of twenty years , the school presented" £ 6
their view , when < the young wo * men educated in it , wer e in high reputation as servants ; and some ' of theno tnarried , and the respec * table and industrious mother * Off numerous families . ' * But successful a » Mis . G » and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/41/
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