 | Maine. Board of Education - 1847 - 658 sider
...One of their earliest acts of legislation, was a law making it obligatory upon parents and masters, " to teach their children and apprentices, so much learning...enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws." In furtherance of this object, the general court of the colony of Massachusetts... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1848 - 796 sider
...the laws passed in 1642, it is CHAP. ordered, that ' none of the brethren shall suffer so v — \ — much barbarism in their families, as not to teach...enable them perfectly to read the English tongue.' And, again, in 1647, 'To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers,' it is... | |
 | Maine. Legislature - 1848 - 1088 sider
...One of their earliest acts of legislation, was a law making it obligatory upon parents and masters, " to teach their children and apprentices, so much learning...enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws." In furtherance of this object, the general court of the colony of Massachusetts... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1848 - 614 sider
...shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning as...enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, * * * upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein." With such laws as the preceding,... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1848 - 550 sider
...shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning as...enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, * * * upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein." With such laws as the preceding,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1849 - 306 sider
...suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning,...enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and [obtain a] knowledge of the capital laws ; upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein."... | |
 | Ira Mayhew - 1850 - 486 sider
...them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families as not to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning as...enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein." Each of... | |
 | Ira Mayhew - 1850 - 476 sider
...them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families as not to,teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning as...enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein." Each of... | |
 | Robert Pashley - 1852 - 516 sider
...The Puritans, early in the seventeenth century, provided by law, " that none of the brethren should suffer so much barbarism in their families as not...enable them perfectly to read the English tongue." " To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers," it was ordered, in... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1853 - 486 sider
...suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning as...enable them perfectly to read the English Tongue : and a knowledge of the Capital Laws : upon a penalty of 20s for each neglect therein. Also, that all masters... | |
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That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor... 
