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    108 Lancaster ' s Plan of Education .

    of Calvin ' admirers ' " to overshoot Jiia mark , through various deviations from truth . Moskcim ' s more elaborate and correct performance was re-published Hclmstad , 1748 , 4 to , in which edition he used a number of

    jylS S of the Senate of Geneva , which he partly Joined to it . To this excellent performance , Mosheim published a Supplement ) 1750 , Helmstad , to remove some new abjections . See \ Nova Acta Erud . 1751 , p . 297—311 . L ' Abbe D'Artigny ' s Nouv . Mem . d ' Hist . de Crit . et de Literat . tom . ii . 1749 . Ft . Turret in Inst- Theol . El-

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    AN ACCOUNT OJ ? THE PROGRESS OF JOSEPH LANCASTER ' S HAN FOR THE EDUCATION OF POOR CHILDREN , AND TH £ TRAILING OF MASTERS POJl COUNTRY SCHOOLS ..

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    In the year 1798 , Joseph Lancaster opened a school in St . George ' s Fields , for the education of the children of the poor , at a very reduced charge . In the prosecution of this work he was

    obliged to devise plans of economy , in order to diminish the expense of books , paper , &c . and also a particular kind of discipline , that he might be able to manage a large number of children , without the necessity of employing ushers or assistants with salaries . The present state of perfection exhibited by his schools , is the

    result of numerous experiment" and indefatigable attention , during a number of years ; and it is with gratitude and pleasure that he acknowledges the encouragement he has received from enlightened and benevolent individuals , which has , from time to time , operated as a powerful stimulus to persevering exertion . In an early stage of

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    his labours , he obtained / the patronage and liberal support of the Duke of Bedford and Lord Somerville , who commenced a subscription for buildings necessary to form a large school - room ^ in order that his experiments in tui . tion might be exhibited on a great

    number ot children . 1 his object wassoon accomplished : the school was opened as a free school , and children received to the number of seven hundred . The same benevolent personages , looking forward to the more general diffusion ot these benefits , were desirous that a plan should be established for training young men and lads as school-masters , that , by a practical knowledge of the improved modes of tuition , they

    might be qualified to superintend schools , to be formed in various parts of the kingdom upon the same plan . The institution in the Borough Road , therefore ,

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    : encht H , N part T ii . loci xvii . quaesjt , 24 . page 373 . . Venema , ) Instit . Hist . Eccles . kKet . et . . vol . vii . in 4 to . page # 61—483 . Leyd . 1783 . who , with his usual acuteness and impartiality weighed , as in a golden balance , all that was brought forward uoon this subject : and lastly .

    Fred . Sam . Bockius , Hist * Antitrinitariorum , Regiomonti and Lipsise , vol . iii . p . ii . p » 323—395 . 1784 . Permit me to remain with high consideration and esteem , Sir , Your most obedient servant ^ CANDIDUS .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/4/