...frequently on other days: he also established lectures in the neighbouring villages, with schools, in which the children of the poor were taught to read, and were regularly catechized by him at stated seasons. In the course of the year last mentioned, he began...

...services in his own place of worship, he established lectures in the neighbouring villages, and schools in which the children of the poor were taught to read ; and they were catechised by him at stated seasons. His affection for the young was exceedingly great, and...

...Roger Cholmeley, had permitted it to be converted, from a free grammar-school, into :i mere charity school, in which the children of the poor were taught to read English, and to write, upon the plan adopted in the national schools; that the master, though he received...

...devoted themselves to the endeavour to heal and alleviate such diseases as could not be prevented. To every mosque was attached a public school, in which the children of the poor were instructed how to read and write, and informed of the chief principles inculeated in the Koran. In...

...devoted themselves to the endeavour to heal and alleviate such diseases as could not be prevented. To every mosque was attached a public school, in which the children of the poor were instructed how to read and write, and informed of the chief principles inculcated in the Koran. In...

...Rome. The khalifs of the West carried out the precepts of Ali, the fourth successor of Mohammed, in the patronage of literature. They established libraries...circumstances there were academies, usually arranged in twenty-five or thirty apartments, each caleulated for accommodating four students ; the academy being...

...all distinctions of caste," and enjoined full social equality. They were the friends of education. " To every mosque was attached a public school, in which...children of the poor were taught to read and write." They established libraries in their chief cities, and were the patrons of the sciences and of the useful...

...large city had its university; every considerable town its public library ; and every mosque its free school, in which the children of the poor were taught to read and write, and instructed in the principles of religion and morality. Scrupulously clean in their habits, the Spanish Arabs bathed daily,...

...by ample Government patronage, and produced many illustrious professors. . . . The caliphs of Spain established libraries in all their chief towns ; it...calculated for accommodating four students ; the academy was presided over by a rector. In Cordova, Granada, and other great cities, there were universities...

...Roger Cholmeley, had permitted it to be converted, from a free grammar-school, into a mere charity school, in which the children of the poor were taught to read English, and to write, upon the plan adopted in the national schools; that the master, though he received...