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jhirig towards their living , a 3 to read and write , " and " that all children of above seven years old may be presented to this kind of education , none
being to be excluded by reason of the poverty and unabiiity of their parents , for hereby it hath come to pass , that many are now holding the plough , which might have been made fit to steer the state /'
The author proceeds to recommend that " such poor children be employed in works , whereby they may earn their living , equal to their strength and understanding . And if they cannot get their whole living , and their parents can contribute nothing at all to make it up , " that they " stay somewhat the longer in the
workhouse . " He further recommends , " that they use such exercises , whether in work or for recreation , as tend to the health , agility and strength of their ladies . —that they be taught to read by much more compendious means than are in common use , which is a thing certainly very easy and feasible ;"and that the elements of arithmetic
and geometry be by all studied , being not only of great and frequent use in all human affairs , but also sure guides and helps to reason , and especial remedies for a volatile and unsteady mind . "—Advice , pp . 3—5 .
Such , at the age of 25 , without the benefit of an example , and with scarcely a coadjutor , was the anticipation of improvements , reserved for a distant generation , but now contemplated by this almost universal genius . In Ward ' s Gresham Professors , p . 223 , the Advice is mentioned as the
earliest of the author ' s publications . I cannot help remarking how highly honoured was Mr . Hart lib , by the confidence of such a triumvirate , as Boyle 9 Milton and Petty ! P . 20 . I thank Mr . H . Taylor for his information . Since I mentioned
Dr . John Taylor ' s pamphlet , I have found " A Letter to the Society of Protestant Dissenters at the Octagon in Liverpool . London , 1766 . " This pamphlet contains an introductory letter
inviting to an examination of the subject of baptism . Tkw is followed by a letter from " A Paedobaptist /' with a reply , both which had appeared , October , 1766 , in the General Evenl Post , the first letter , being occasioned , by an advertisement in that
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paper , from T > r . Gill , in which he asserts that " the Psedobaptists are ever restless and uneasy , endeavouring- to maintain and support , "if possible , their unscriptural practice of infant - baptism ; though it is no other than a pillar of Popery . " Then follows ( p . 26 ) the " Copy of a Letter published in the Whitehall
Evening Post , Sept . 17 , 1747 , with Notes by the Author . " This is a severe charge of inconsistency against the Dissenting * gentleman ( Mr . Towgood ) for his zealous defence of
Infant-Baptism , compared with his assertion of Christ ' s sole authority , in reply to Mr . White . The Dissenting gentleman is loudly called upon to explain himself . One of your correspondents can , perhaps , say who was the anonymous Letter-writer , and whether Mr . Towgood ever replied . P . 50 , col . 1 . " The confounding
of Wollaston with Woolston" was once very common . Mr . Clarke , in his Preface to " The Religion of Nature , " 1 7 ^ 0 , attributes the mistake not only to the similitude of names , " but to the circumstance of both those writers having been members of the same college in Cambridge . Ibid . col . 2 . Voltaire * last
moments were not so described nearer the time of his death in 1778 . Condorcet , in his Life , annexed ( to Vol . C . of his Works , ( 17 . > 2 , p . 164 , ) says , not indeed much to the credit
of Voltaire ' s sincerity , "L'Abb 6 Gauthier confessa Voltaircy et re <^ ut de lui une profession de foi par laquelle il de ' clarait qu' ii mourait dans la religion Catholique oil iftait 116 . " An
earlier account , probably the earliest in English , ( An . Reg . 1778 , XXI . 4 , ) makes Voltaire reply to the question on the divinity of Christ : " Ah ! M . le Cure * , if I pass that article to you , you will demand if I do not also believe in the Holy Ghost , and so go on , until you finish by the Bull
Unige-77 , 7 tt / 9 p ] 52 , col . 2 . The late King ' s " bad education . " In Lord Melcombe ' s Diary , ( ed . 3 , 1785 , p . 171 , ) the Princess Dowager , in October 1752 , says of her son Prince George , " that he was very honest , but she wished that he was a little more forward and less childish .
at his age , " ( just past 14 , ) and " that she hoped his preceptors would improve him , " adding , in answer to
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Sir W . Petty on Literary Workhouses , fyc * 75
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/11/
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