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... Pauper Children in Union Workhouses . EDITOR . • 285 On the Study of Comparative Grammar . WILLIAM SMITH , Esq . 315 Results of an Enquiry into the Condition of the Labouring Classes in five parishes in the County of Norfolk . G. R. ...
... Pauper Children in Union Workhouses . EDITOR . • 285 On the Study of Comparative Grammar . WILLIAM SMITH , Esq . 315 Results of an Enquiry into the Condition of the Labouring Classes in five parishes in the County of Norfolk . G. R. ...
Page 98
... paupers to the Union Workhouse during the last winter . It is rather to be feared that , if any feeling of dissatisfaction in regard to property existed in the minds of these persons , it partook more of the character of a general ...
... paupers to the Union Workhouse during the last winter . It is rather to be feared that , if any feeling of dissatisfaction in regard to property existed in the minds of these persons , it partook more of the character of a general ...
Page 105
... pauper children in the Cuckfield Union . The value of the material is so small as almost to elude an estimate , the ... paupers in the Union workhouses varies in the course of the year in agricultural districts , may , it is conceiv ed ...
... pauper children in the Cuckfield Union . The value of the material is so small as almost to elude an estimate , the ... paupers in the Union workhouses varies in the course of the year in agricultural districts , may , it is conceiv ed ...
Page 127
... paupers ex- amined at the workhouse of the Union , ( Faversham , ) to which the parishes we have been speaking of belong , only two had ever saved up so much as 107. notwithstanding that several of them had been in the receipt , for ...
... paupers ex- amined at the workhouse of the Union , ( Faversham , ) to which the parishes we have been speaking of belong , only two had ever saved up so much as 107. notwithstanding that several of them had been in the receipt , for ...
Page 284
... been found to afford encouragement to the awkward and the backward , like a kind of balance- wheel in the machine . " August , 1838 . S. WOOD . 285 THE EDUCATION OF PAUPER CHILDREN IN UNION WORKHOUSES . 284 COMMON SCHOOLS .
... been found to afford encouragement to the awkward and the backward , like a kind of balance- wheel in the machine . " August , 1838 . S. WOOD . 285 THE EDUCATION OF PAUPER CHILDREN IN UNION WORKHOUSES . 284 COMMON SCHOOLS .
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