A History of the Grammar School: Or, "The Free Schoole of 1645 in Roxburie." With Biographical Sketches of the Ministers of the First Church, and Other TrusteesJ. Backup, 1860 - 202 pàgines |
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A History of the Grammar School: Or, "The Free Schoole of 1645 in Roxburie ... Charles Knapp Dillaway Visualització completa - 1860 |
A History of the Grammar School: Or, "The Free Schoole of 1645 in Roxburie ... Charles Knapp Dillaway Visualització completa - 1860 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 87 - Such last mentioned school shall be kept for the benefit of all the inhabitants of the town, ten months at least, exclusive of vacations, in each year, and at such convenient place, or alternately at such places in the town, as the legal voters at their annual meeting determine.
Pàgina 191 - ... devise, or otherwise, any lands, tenements, or other estate, real or personal, provided, that the clear annual income of the same shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars.
Pàgina 115 - I cannot forget the ardour with which I once heard him pray, in a synod of these churches which met at Boston to consider "how the miscarriages which were among us might be prevented ;" I say, with what fervour he uttered an expression to this purpose: "Lord, for schools every where among us!
Pàgina 8 - Commonwealthe, in succeeding ages. They therefore unanimously have consented and agreed to erect a free schoole in the said Towne of Roxburie, and to allow Twenty pounds per annum to the Schoolemaster, to bee raised out of the Messuages and part of the Lands of the severall donors (Inhabitantes of the said Towne) in severall proportions as hereafter followeth under their handes.
Pàgina 9 - Court for the establishment hereof by their authority and power, always provided that none of the Inhabitantes of the said Towne of Roxburie that shall not joyne in this act with the rest of the Donors shall have any further benefit thereby than other strangers shall have who are no Inhabitantes. In witness whereof the said Donors aforesaid have hereunto subscribed their names and sommes given yearly the last day of August in the year of our Lord 1645.
Pàgina 164 - He was animated by the loftiest sense of personal honor ; his heart was the home of the kindest feelings; and, without a shade of selfishness, he considered wealth to be no otherwise valuable, but as a powerful instrument of doing good. His liberality went to the extent of his means ; and where they stopped, he exercised an almost unlimited control over the means of others. It was difficult to resist the contagion of his enthusiasm; for it was the enthusiasm of a strong, cultivated, and practical...
Pàgina 46 - At a meeting of the donors in Roxbury, March 16, 1679-80, for the supply of wood for the school. It is ordered that parents, masters, and guardians for the several children comeing to the school, whether inhabitants or strangers, shall in the month of October or November pay to the school master four shillings per child coming to school, or bring half a cord of good merchantable wood, except such as for poverty or otherwise shall be acquitted by the Feoffees.
Pàgina 39 - England, aforesaid, in parts beyond the seas, to have and to hold to the said Minister and officers of the said Church of Roxbury for the time being, and their successors from time to time...
Pàgina 192 - ... conveyance to them made ; provided always, that neither the said Trustees, nor their successors, shall ever hereafter receive any grant or donation, the condition whereof shall require them or any others concerned, to act in any respect counter to the design of the first grantors, or of any prior donation.
Pàgina 87 - Every town, containing five hundred families or householders, shall, besides the schools prescribed in the preceding section, maintain a school, to be kept by a master of competent ability and good morals, who shall, in addition to the branches of learning before mentioned, give instruction in the history of the United States, book-keeping, surveying, geometry, and algebra ; and such last mentioned school shall be kept for the benefit of all the inhabitants of the town...