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    Epistles from a French version , and of the Gospels and the Epistles from , the original Greek , by Father Julian . Tn 1478 , the well known translation into the Catalonian ( or Valencian ) provincial tongue , by Boniface Ferreira ,

    was printed : and m 1485 , Garcia de Santa Maria published in Zaragoza his " Gospels and Epistles" in Spanish . An admirable translation of Matthew ' s Gospel , and Extracts from , the other Evangelists , by Bernard Alcobaga , was printed in Lisbon in 1495 , as part of «< the Life of Christ . " Of the Psalms

    there is preserved a printed Spanish copy , in Gothic letters , without date , supposed to have issued from the Toledo press . It is believed that Alfonso V . encouraged the publication of another Spanish translation

    of the Bible , which was followed by yet another in the succeeding century . At the request of King Manuel , the Psalms were again translated and printed in 1 S 2 Q , . and aPortugueze version of the Proverbs came from the

    Lisbon press irv 1544 . In very modern times many have been the translations of the Bible published in Portugal . Their circulation has been wide , and manifest their beneficent influence . The best

    of them is that of An to . Perreira de Figuetredo , o £ which a second edition ( I thm , k in 16 vols . ) was printed in Lisbon i ^ n 1805 . Notwithstanding the expense of this work , it is eagejrly inquired for by the middling classes and best instructed part of the

    lower , and it continues silently diffusing its blessings , in spite of the concealed , but decided opposition of monks and priests . X I need not add that no book whatever is printed in Portuga 1 without the " authority of the king and of the most hol y inquisition . Your ' s , &c . J . B .

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    Sir June 27 , } 8 l 6 . WAS gratified to observe , in your Ilast No . pp . 295 , 6 V 4 * e respect so elegantl y paid , im two different forms , Jo . the memory of Mr , Jpseph Fox . I ha / 1 the pleasure of acting with turn , seve ral years ago , in promoting some ° | & 5 ? t 9 which promised and have since eftected r * o small public good , and can ° Waye , ry impartial testimony , to his SrW and pwa ^ intentKons , .. . a * I fra d « te > . iwta ^ pae to . diffe r jjfrqnjj - him , * 9 fw * y aijd W £ rni ) y on , ^ o na e points pf v XI . * ' ' ¦ " - •¦ "' * 3 f

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    intemar arrangement in the society to which I allude . Our differences , however , we were disposed to forget as soon as possible , and happily they never interrupted our mutual goodr

    will I . had just heard of the death of that excellent man , who lived so much for the benefit of others , when I met with a striking and satisfactory evidence of the improvement which a century has

    produced among us , " m the greatest of all manufactures , the formation of human minds , ' * to borrow the happy expression of the late Mr . Christie , in his Miscellanies , 1 ? BQ , p . 213 . Having occasion to consult the 3 d volume of Magna Britannia , published in 1724 , 1 observed , p . 224 , an account of * ' the charitv schools , " under

    the article London , including westminster and Southvvark . Distributed among 45 wards or parishes , there were 87 schools , educating 3737 children , consisting of 235 7 boys and 1380 girls . So that supposing 263 children within the same district to be

    educated by the Dissenters , and it is probably , a sufficient computation , no more than 4000 children of the poor could then gain the commonest education , by any public charitable provision , in the metropolis , even according to its most extended description .

    Yet this number of 3737 , inconsiderable as it now appears , was indeed a large increase upon the number computed about sixteen years before . There was published in 1708 , in 2 vols . 8 vo . A New View of London * anonymous , but generally ascribed to Mr . Hatton . It is regarded as a work of merit in its wav , and the author

    declares in his preface that in it way " nothing taken upon trust that admitted of inspection . " In the sixth section is an enumeration of the * ' charity schools within » he cities of London , Westminster and South ' - wark . " I have collected the number of children belonging to these schools , and find their amount in 1708 to have

    been only 2 O 41 , being 1310 boys und 731 g irls . 1 have , of course , omitted in boih cas-s the " free grammar schools .

    After 1708 there appears tq have been some zeal excited fpr the uroniot > ii > of charity schools . The author whom I have just mentioned fpun 4 one or two new schools builJ ^ inc .

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    Education of the Po * r . 397

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/25/