Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Volumen16

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Vepery mission Press., 1851
 

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Página 426 - Wayfaring Sketches among the Greeks and TURKS, AND ON THE SHORES OF THE DANUBE. By a Seven Years
Página 502 - First American edition, with a Glossary and other Additions and Improvements; from the second English edition. Translated from the sixth German edition, by HENRY MEDLOCK, FCS, &c.
Página 398 - Whatever expense Government may incur in the education of the people will be amply repaid by the improvement of the country, for the general diffusion of knowledge is inseparably followed by more orderly habits, by increasing industry, by a taste for the comforts of life, by exertions to acquire them, and by the growing prosperity of the people.
Página 397 - ... though the number privately taught in the provinces does certainly not approach this rate, it is no doubt considerable, because the practice of boys being taught at home by their relations or private teachers is not unfrequent in any part of the country. The proportion educated is very different in different classes : in some it is nearly the whole ; in others it is hardly one-tenth.
Página 392 - But it would be equally wrong to do any thing to fortify them in the absurd opinion, that their own rude institutions of education are so perfect as not to admit of improvement.
Página 396 - ... for females, the remaining male population will be 6,425,000 ; and if we reckon the male population between the ages of five and ten years, which is the period which boys in general remain at school, at one-ninth, it will give 713,000 which is the number of boys that would be at school if all the males above ten years of age were educated ; but the number actually attending the school is only 184,110, or little more than one-fourth of that number.
Página 422 - Peel to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, and to inform you, that he is not of opinion that a reference to arbitration of the points at issue between yourself and the Ordnance Select Committee would lead to any advantageous results, and that he is consequently unable to accede to your wishes in this respect. " ' I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "
Página 426 - A tour of duty in California; including a description of the gold region...
Página 393 - Brahmins from my treasury, and many of the numerous and valuable Shotrium villages, now in the enjoyment of Brahmins in this district, who receive one-fourth, one-third, one-half, two-thirds, and sometimes the whole of their annual revenue, may...
Página 396 - From these reports it appears that the number of schools, and of what are called colleges, in the territories under this presidency, amount to 12,498, and the population to 12,850,941 ; so that there is one school to every 1,000 of the population ; but as only a very few females are taught in schools, we may reckon one school to every 500 of the population.

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