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EWJ-1860-07-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The class of Public Schools comprises the Faculties, Lyceums, and Colleges, Institutions and Pensions, Primary Schools and Infant Schools, (Salles d'Asile,) already mentioned; also the Special Schools already alluded to, for the prosecution of the various branches of study in their highest departments. Of these Public ... | 1 | 4,075 | 143 | 4,218 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and Polytechnic Schools, the School of Mines, the School of Bridges and Roads, the Military and Naval Schools, the Schools of Law and Medicine, etc., are under the jurisdiction of the University. The Sorbonne is an Academic Faculty, giving lectures, and performing other educational functions, but is not properly a scho... | 1 | 4,075 | 442 | 4,517 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In the case of ecclesiastics, or members of authorised religious corporations, the examination and grant of certificate are dispensed with; the exhibition of their “letters of obedience” being considered as a sufficient guarantee of their intellectual and moral competency. The Inspectors of the University have no autho... | 1 | 4,075 | 231 | 4,306 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | master, is probably not without a tendency to render the horrors of a "Dotheboys Hall" of comparatively rare occurrence in France.
The price of admission to the Public Schools is regulated by the University, in the case of those founded by that body; by the municipal authority, in those founded by the _commune_; fello... | 1 | 3,115 | 554 | 3,669 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The second category of Polytechnic students enter the Practical School of Bridges and Roads (Ecole d'Application des Ponts et Chaussées) in Paris; on leaving which institution they are at liberty to take office in the service of the State, or to set up as Engineers on their own account. | 1 | 4,203 | 66 | 4,269 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The two Military Divisions of the third category of Polytechnic students go into Practical Schools of Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery, at Metz, St. Cyr, and Saumur: on leaving these schools they are admitted, with the rank of Ensign, into their respective divisions of the army; one of each group, signalised by superio... | 1 | 2,923 | 665 | 3,588 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | *There is also in Paris a Military School (Ecole Militaire) for the education of private soldiers of promising talent, who, on leaving it, enter the army as non-commissioned officers.
A. B. | 1 | 3,949 | 47 | 3,996 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the equanimity of the police was greatly disturbed by a sudden suspicion that this imposing body of youths could be nothing less than the avant-garde of an insurrectionary army! Several other institutions, some of them of very ancient date, have been founded in Paris for the delivery of courses of public lectures by th... | 1 | 4,075 | 229 | 4,304 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | The biography of a Russian lady of high birth and great cultivation cannot but be deeply interesting to English readers, even when the story of her life is unmarked by great vicissitudes, because we know but little of the interior developments of Russian nationality, and next to nothing of the thoughts and feelings of ... | 1 | 4,075 | 291 | 4,366 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLIV.—MADAME SWETCHINE.
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EWJ-1860-07-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | French Encyclopedia into Russian,—an enjoyable task to a tough literary appetite! His grand-daughter inherited an astonishing power of plodding through the most voluminous studies.
Moscow was then, even more than at the present day, the national capital of Russia; and the first impressions which Mademoiselle Soymonof ... | 1 | 3,949 | 414 | 4,363 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Mademoiselle Sophie Soynonof was christened after the Empress, who had originally been the Princess Sophie d'Anhalt-Zerbst, and had only assumed the name of Catherine on becoming a member of the Greek Church. M. Soynonof, notwithstanding his occupations as courtier and secrétaire intime, found time to bestow assiduous ... | 1 | 3,949 | 241 | 4,190 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | —it was given—it was proudly worn! when suddenly another idea rushed into Sophie’s head. “There is something grander than having a watch,” said she, “and that is giving it up of my own free will.” The English reader will smile at this infantine sublimity, so exactly like the children in Sandford and Merton. Those were ... | 1 | 4,075 | 372 | 4,447 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Something quantify vigorous and imaginative mingled in all this child's education; her dolls were very large, had proper names and carried on the varied relations of adult society; she composed a little ballet, entitled the "Faithful and the Frivolous Shepherdesses," which she acted and danced to her father and his fri... | 1 | 4,075 | 336 | 4,411 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | struct the 'basis of society, than to' take the trouble of driving in solid piles in the way of individual well-doing. M. Soymonof, who possessed all the attributes of his generation, partook also in its illusions; he was generous, liberal, alive to every prospect of social amelioration, but forgetful of the lessons of... | 1 | 3,949 | 401 | 4,350 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In 1796 the Empress Catherine died of apoplexy, leaving her throne to her son Paul I.; and Sophie Soymonof was named maidof-honor to his wife, the Empress Marie, a good and beautiful woman, mother of six children, and an angel of sweetness to her violent and capricious husband, who made her ride about with him in all w... | 1 | 3,949 | 276 | 4,225 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | familiar with the learned and touching harmonies of the north as with the brilliant melodies of Italy; she read music at sight, and accompanied herself on the piano. In personal appearance she was not striking; but her physiognomy, her gestures, and her voice, were all attractive and sympathetic. Her blue eyes were sma... | 1 | 3,307 | 546 | 3,853 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | But his own presentiments had been too true: he enjoyed a vivid but fleeting pleasure in witnessing his daughter's early married life, from which he had promised himself a peaceful old age. The Emperor Paul suddenly, and without even allowing Sophie or the general time to intercede, exiled M. Soyonof from St. Petersbur... | 1 | 4,203 | 108 | 4,311 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | much-beloved daughter, and a cold welcome from a friend on whom he had particularly relied, plunged him into unconquerable sadness; and the poor old nobleman was carried off by a fit of apoplexy at the moment when those who loved him at home were anxiously seeking how to procure a recall. Bitter as was this blow to Mad... | 1 | 4,075 | 353 | 4,428 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The society in which, from her first entrance, she occupied a high position, was then one of the most brilliant in all Europe. The French Revolution infused into it an element which was rather new than foreign, and which appealed vividly to the mind of Madame Swetchine. The most distinguished residents of Paris and Ver... | 1 | 4,075 | 322 | 4,397 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Such were the early associations which bound Madame Swetchine so strongly to the French people, and though the reverses of favor inevitable to an imperial régime soon overtook her husband, and he retired from his public career, their way of life continued much the same. Their estates were far away; Moscow offered no at... | 1 | 3,179 | 547 | 3,726 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | But however earnest was Madame Swetchine's increasing love of intellectual exertion, it did not suffice then or ever for her happiness. To the care of her little sister, she now joined the adoption of a child whom circumstances, faintly indicated in the biography, cast upon her maternal sympathy. The name of the new me... | 1 | 4,203 | 92 | 4,295 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | that of her young adopted mother. At the same time she began to occupy herself in works of active charity. The wife of Alexander I., who had now succeeded to the throne, combined with the empress-mother in carrying out benevolent ideas; and institutions for affording education, or material relief, were multiplied under... | 1 | 3,179 | 602 | 3,781 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The sentiment of duty was always so strong in Madame Swetchine's mind, that patriotism naturally dwelt there also. The epoch in which she dwelt, and her own mature conviction, disposed her to the doctrine that one's native country has a right to demand every sacrifice, and as a Russian this principle assumed a monarchi... | 1 | 4,075 | 81 | 4,156 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | was regarded by his subjects with the strongest personal enthusiasm. He showed great tenderness of heart towards the wounded, and went himself among the dying on the field of battle, succouring alike the Russians and the French. More than once he was known to weep at hearing cries of pain and farewell words uttered in ... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,334 | 7,052 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | that which I save out of the pillage only makes me regret more keenly that which I lose, I need leisure so much ! The turmoil of the life I have led makes me almost a stranger to that inner self which cannot fully be said to exist, unless it can give itself up to gentle affections, to nature, and to that world of intel... | 1 | 3,691 | 503 | 4,194 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The war being ended, and the news of the first restoration of the Bourbons to the throne of France having reached St. Petersburg, all "la société" precipitated itself in congratulations on the mansion of Count Golovine, where dwelt, amidst love and honor, an elderly French exile, the Princesse de Tarente. "This lady ow... | 1 | 4,075 | 180 | 4,255 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | peror Alexander made arrangements for her conveyance on board a ship of war, but she was never destined to see France again; every joyful emotion fell with a shock on a heart so long accustomed to grief and exile, and she sank away at fifty years of age within full vision of the promised land. Madeleine de Golovine, wh... | 1 | 3,243 | 575 | 3,818 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | (To be continued.) | 1 | 4,203 | 5 | 4,208 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I HAVE read with much pleasure a paper by the Misses Blackwell of New York, in the May number of the “English Woman’s Journal,” on the expediency and policy of ladies occupying themselves in the study and practice of the Art of Healing. The problem of finding employment for women, suitable and remunerative, and especia... | 1 | 2,987 | 586 | 3,573 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | ( 315 )
XLV.—MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR LADIES. | 1 | 3,825 | 20 | 3,845 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | groove in the bones, the points of origin and insertion of muscles, the course, branchings, and connections of the blood-vessels and nerves, and the like of all parts of the body. Secondly, he must learn the intimate structure, as revealed by the microscope, of the several parts and tissues. And thirdly, he must be acq... | 1 | 3,051 | 557 | 3,608 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Thus, in intrusting the guidance of ships to the mariner, do we require of him so much knowledge of astronomy as the professors of the science possess? By no means, but we demand just so | 1 | 3,583 | 42 | 3,625 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | much as is needed for navigation; and he would be considered to have bid adieu to common sense, who should maintain that every practical sailor should be able to calculate eclipses or measure the parallax of the fixed stars.
In point of fact, the medical profession admit the distinction and the inference I am aiming a... | 1 | 3,499 | 510 | 4,009 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - Speaking of the College of Surgeons it says, "In the first place, its curriculum is framed on the most unphilosophical principles. The most illiterate and ignorant take refuge in the membership of the College of Surgeons. The Council deliberately give the student-world to understand that pathology is of little conseq... | 1 | 3,703 | 148 | 3,851 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "As for securing to the public a set of competent surgeons, the college does not do that, there is no more connection between merit and the diploma of that body, than between Ghoughis Khan and the French Revolution.
"Taking the lowest possible ground is not the worst, the grossest ignorance may really infest the man w... | 1 | 3,563 | 487 | 4,050 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Having, I trust, disposed of the idea that ladies must resort to the ordinary medical schools and obtain diplomas and titles, and shown it to be inadmissible and useless, I will proceed to sketch an outline of a plan practicable and efficient to qualify them for the duties of attending on the sick and practising the ar... | 1 | 3,825 | 140 | 3,965 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | structured ladies would not be far better than men, more useful to the public, and ministers of moral and social improvement. To say nothing of exceptional cases, where medical men have abused the confidence of their patients and done violence to female modesty and delicacy, I am certain that women, from their shrinkin... | 1 | 3,115 | 550 | 3,665 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It would be necessary for even the readiest learner and the acutest observer to go through both these courses twice at least; but after the first I would recommend that the pupils should visit the bedsides of patients with their instructor, and have pointed out to them the particular exemplifications of his oral instru... | 1 | 3,825 | 67 | 3,892 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | I venture to predict that female tact and acuteness, readiness of apprehension and conscientiousness, would, after two courses of this comprehensive instruction, render a class of ladies infinitely better qualified for their duties as practitioners of medicine, than any curriculum yet devised by college or university c... | 1 | 2,987 | 565 | 3,552 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I have abstained from mentioning the practice of obstetrics as a suitable employment for females, because the subject merits a fuller exposition than could be embraced by this paper, but I propose to | 1 | 4,203 | 42 | 4,245 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 33 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | devote a future one to the subject. The Medical Titles Act, in its bearings upon the question of lady practitioners of the art of healing, also demands a separate consideration, and I propose to resume the subject and enter into further details should this brief notice be found acceptable. | 1 | 3,349 | 64 | 3,413 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 33 | 0 | 2 | text | 2 | A PHYSICIAN. | 1 | 913 | 7 | 920 | B0C2R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 33 | 1 | 0 | text | 4 | (FROM THE GERMAN.)
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EWJ-1860-07-01 | 33 | 1 | 0 | text | 5 | Over a new-filled grave a maiden tender, Planted with tears and prayer a poplar slender. | 1 | 3,349 | 20 | 3,369 | B1C0R5 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 33 | 1 | 0 | text | 6 | "Grow, grow, fair tree," she said, "Lift to the stars thy head, Where dwells unseen my love; Rise, ever rise above! | 1 | 3,349 | 35 | 3,384 | B1C0R6 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 33 | 1 | 0 | text | 7 | "Let every branch aspire, As do my arms, mine eyes, Till with my soul's desire, Thy summit, mounting higher, Be hidden in the skies. | 1 | 3,349 | 35 | 3,384 | B1C0R7 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 33 | 1 | 0 | text | 8 | O poplar! on this dear mound ever show A faithful emblem of my love and woe." | 1 | 3,349 | 21 | 3,370 | B1C0R8 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 33 | 1 | 0 | text | 9 | Over a new-made grave a lover bending, | 1 | 3,349 | 9 | 3,358 | B1C0R9 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 33 | 1 | 0 | text | 10 | A willow planted, every leaf down-tending. "Droop low to weep," he said, "Above my blue-eyed maid; Sad tree, still earthward bow, As doth my spirit now. | 1 | 3,349 | 47 | 3,396 | B1C0R10 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 33 | 1 | 0 | title | 3 | XLVI.—THE TWO LAMENTS. | 1 | 3,349 | 10 | 3,359 | B1C0R3 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is the fashion of some good people to complain of the poor in the same way that we find them complaining about their servants. When we hear these frequent bemoanings we are apt to fancy that some fault may lie at the door of mistress and visitor as well as of servants and poor people. That many of this latter class ... | 1 | 3,179 | 629 | 3,808 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | ( 322 )
XLVII.—ON DISTRICT VISITORS AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF TRACTS. | 1 | 3,825 | 32 | 3,857 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | widow Mrs. Evans. This good lady liking, as she says, to “investigate things,” though she rarely stirs from home, and never dreams of asking advice in alms-giving of her neighbours, indeed she would consider the act pharisaical, has Peggy in and discourses with her. Having found out that her husband is really ill, and,... | 1 | 3,825 | 413 | 4,238 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | But to return to district visitors. There are a few hints which it would be well if even the most zealous would take heed to. Do not, if you possibly can help it, find fault with the household management of the cottages you enter. You yourself, dear lady, may be perfect in your household, but it is not so with pretty y... | 1 | 3,825 | 377 | 4,202 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | sickness, if it is only to inquire for them; a few kind words in their sorrow; a few brave ones to help them to bear up through trouble, are more valued by the poor than costly gifts, or money coarsely bestowed. The district visitor must remember that it is as a visitor she enters their cottages. She must knock first a... | 1 | 4,203 | 403 | 4,606 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | But a word as to tract distributing and this generally falls to the portion of the district visitor. We confess when we first entered upon this duty it was with great distaste, there seemed to be an assumption of superiority in the very performance of it. We did not like the idea of intruding religious works on those w... | 1 | 4,203 | 341 | 4,544 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | will slink away consciously" from the lady visitor; the slattern will set her house in order against she is expected; softer influences and better feelings will creep in with the kindnesses shown them, and they will begin to mend perhaps, because you do not think them so bad that you cannot enter their cottages.
As re... | 1 | 3,499 | 537 | 4,036 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In conclusion, we would beg the district visitor to remember that her mission is like that of her great Master's, to go about doing good, healing up the wounds, and speaking words of comfort to the broken-hearted. If Christ himself came to call sinners to repentance, surely it is not for us to pass by them on the other... | 1 | 4,203 | 143 | 4,346 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | has said "If ye give but a cup of cold water in my name to one of these little ones, ye give it unto me:" even on earth the good seed sown shall return into our bosoms, and, far above all else, Christ has said "Ye shall have praise of my Father in heaven."
A. L. | 1 | 4,203 | 68 | 4,271 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | (Concluded from page 240.)
Currency Creek, Adelaide, South Australia, June, 1849.
Dear Friends,
You will perhaps read with interest a slight account with which I intend to present you, so far as I am yet acquainted with the colony. On entering the port, which is about six miles from the town of Adelaide, the view is... | 1 | 3,499 | 510 | 4,009 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLVIII.—ON ASSISTED EMIGRATION. | 1 | 4,203 | 13 | 4,216 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | than two days, when a cold change succeeds which is very reviving. These hot winds blow from the N. E., and fly in one's face like a suffocating flame of fire, making many persons very languid, and it is only when these winds blow that the climate can be called hot; these warm winds, which on an average blow once every... | 1 | 4,075 | 374 | 4,449 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We are fifty miles in the bush, and I have seen but one woman this seven weeks. I see plenty of men, rough-looking but kindhearted bushmen. I must tell you, that by keeping in service we should not have done so well as we are now doing. - In the course of the next month we shall be milking twenty cows, so you may be su... | 1 | 3,949 | 247 | 4,196 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | as they send for a girl from Adelaide some of the bachelors are sure to steal her away; so do not marry in England unless you are sure the man can turn his hand to almost anything, for those are most likely to succeed in the bush; and I am sure you would not like to live in the town. I forgot to tell you we have a very... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,403 | 7,121 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | or to milk the cow was certain death. Butter in Adelaide rose to two shillings and three pence per pound, and the meat was so poor that it was impossible to get a fat beast. Of course there are no butchers' shops in the bush, every man must be his own butcher, and this is how we manage: when we kill we divide the beast... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,260 | 6,978 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | is it likely I shall see more, for John declares he will never take me in the dray, and I am too great a coward to go on horseback. The winter is by far the pleasantest season here, the heat this last summer was most unbearable; but with the evil we get the good, for the beautiful cool fruits are so refreshing, particu... | 1 | 2,859 | 664 | 3,523 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | well here. In the end he came further out into the bush, nine miles from the station where we went to live when we first came here, and he is now doing exceedingly well. He has three horses, and as soon as one is tired he turns back to fetch another; in fact, he has enough hard work for them all. He has promised as soo... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,444 | 7,162 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | lowest calling in the colony) to keep themselves from downright starvation. Many of these sort of young men go hut-keeping; which is by far the easiest berth. There is only one sheep station about here, and that is ten miles from us.
I went on a visit to this station a short time ago, and while on the road met three l... | 1 | 3,179 | 577 | 3,756 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We have lately had a minister settle down here, and have just built a chapel; it is a curious looking edifice, a few degrees inferior to the Crystal Palace, which from what I hear must be all glass. Our infant chapel cannot yet boast of any transparency, for we have calico windows, and about a fortnight ago we were muc... | 1 | 4,075 | 74 | 4,149 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | for the cattle one night had eaten them all up, perhaps they thought they would be revenged upon us for robbing them of the trees that so lately stood on the spot. We are now going to have a tea meeting to raise a subscription to buy glass windows, and shutters too I sup- pose, or else they will be butting at their own... | 1 | 2,987 | 561 | 3,548 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | What will they say in England when I tell them I have never seen a shop for five years and a half, nor a woman for six weeks. I daresay you would think it a dreadful life, but though we do not go | 1 | 3,825 | 49 | 3,874 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | out much this district is becoming much more populous, and no doubt whoever lives to see it, the Goolwa will be quite a town in another five years. There is a new mill just finished and a public house. We are getting on with our new farm, and I am happy to say the work seems getting under weigh; I did not expect this t... | 1 | 2,859 | 687 | 3,546 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | figure | 2 | The image depicts a section of a 19th-century English newspaper. The text is printed in a traditional serif font, typical of the period. The content appears to be a news article or report, with multiple paragraphs of text. The layout is simple, with no visible images or illustrations accompanying the text. The newspape... | 1 | 205 | 79 | 284 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | We managed to get a schoolmaster for the Creek, but as soon as he got his quarter's salary, twenty pounds, off he went to the diggings, and we have had no other since. Sometimes we talk of sending her to a good school, that she may be able to teach the others; but then again, I think they would not learn much from a si... | 1 | 3,627 | 552 | 4,179 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 4 | What is interference? This question has been brought to my mind by two or three recent occurrences, and I think the cause of “woman’s work” would be materially assisted if we could answer it satisfactorily, and show what it is, and what it is not. | 1 | 3,825 | 56 | 3,881 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | title | 3 | XLIX.—INTERFERENCE.
_————_ | 1 | 3,825 | 14 | 3,839 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | One thing which has led me to this subject is the following opinion recently recorded of the ______ Board of Guardians at one of their meetings. Lady visitors have for some time been admitted to that vast workhouse, they are tolerated by the guardians and officials, and permitted to enter, we believe, only by tickets f... | 1 | 2,987 | 615 | 3,602 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * Be it observed that the details are not stated, or any opportunity given to the accused to clear themselves, so we have no means of judging in what the accusations consisted. | 1 | 3,703 | 35 | 3,738 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | workhouses and other institutions which may not be at all unprofitable. First, I would remark that the “English Woman’s Journal” would do good service by ascertaining and giving details of all those institutions where women are admitted to any part of the control or management, whether schools, hospitals, or any other ... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,299 | 7,017 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | lady visitor may be interpreted as “interference,” where there is a desire to do so on the part of those who have the ear of the guardian and in such cases the author said of the question is probably | 1 | 3,825 | 48 | 3,873 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | tants, and in such cases the other side of the question is properly never heard at all.
There cannot be a doubt on the minds of unprejudiced persons of the absolute necessity for the influence and supervision of well educated women, not only in all schools, but more especially in those which are intended for pauper ch... | 1 | 2,859 | 607 | 3,466 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | there is no end of such inconsistencies and anomalies, which have grown up we know not how. When the dress suitable for nurses in a workhouse had to be decided upon, it was the "gentlemen," viz., the guardians and poor-law inspector, who were consulted upon the subject. Even were an educated and superior woman to be fo... | 1 | 3,949 | 387 | 4,336 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We do most entirely concur in the remarks made in the last Journal upon the subject of the organisation of charity in Paris, and earnestly do we desire to see more of woman's influence and agency introduced into ours; it is the leaven that is wanting throughout our entire poor-law system. The remarks made upon our work... | 1 | 3,949 | 331 | 4,280 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | pation throughout workhouses) is the main cause of all the miserable wrangling and quarreling that goes on in our wards, where those are placed to rule who have no claim or right to rule, and where there is in fact perfect equality of position, and perhaps only still greater defects in character in those who govern. We... | 1 | 3,691 | 527 | 4,218 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In conclusion, I would say a word to those women who are anxious to take their share of work, and willing to offer their assistance in the “communication of labor.” I would earnestly remind them how much in the future depends upon their own conduct in the present state of things, and how great is the need of caution, d... | 1 | 4,203 | 177 | 4,380 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "women's work." It is therefore fatal to provoke such an edict against us; any concession, any degree of patience or forbearance which will avert such a calamity, will be advisable: and it is in order to enforce this that we strongly recommend the working together of all ladies who undertake this office, for then at le... | 1 | 3,627 | 443 | 4,070 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science. 1859. Edited by G. W. Hastings, Esq. London: John W. Parker & Son.
After the lapse of several months we return to this weighty volume, which represents the great idea of social progress under the varied forms which it assumes in the England ... | 1 | 3,825 | 118 | 3,943 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | L.—NOTICES OF BOOKS. | 1 | 3,825 | 9 | 3,834 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It has been objected that of the five divisions Jurisprudence, instead of being placed at the head, ought to have occupied the position of last of the departments, as law is the last form which any social movement assumes—it is the mould in which the image of a nation's thought is cast for transmission to posterity. Bu... | 1 | 2,923 | 737 | 3,660 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | JurispRudence, or the Amendment of the Law. | 1 | 4,203 | 14 | 4,217 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | cannot think what it wishes them to do in its behalf." This is the more practical purpose of the department; to create, on questions of law, a public opinion which shall insist on the carrying of every wise reform. Among those advocated in the present volume are amendments in the Laws relating to Charitable Trusts. The... | 1 | 3,703 | 390 | 4,093 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Two interesting papers on the subject of Competitive Examinations are followed by a most comprehensive one “On Some Existing Relations of Time and Circumstances to the objects of Education,” by the Rev. Barham Zincke, in which he expresses his opinion that our systems of education generally fail to adapt themselves to ... | 1 | 3,703 | 346 | 4,049 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | EDUCATION.
THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF INQUIRY INTO THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN IRELAND, 1826.
CHAPTER I.—INTRODUCTORY.
The Commissioners of Inquiry into the state of Education in Ireland, having completed their tour of inspection, and having collected and digested the information which they received, have now ... | 1 | 3,703 | 589 | 4,292 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | taking their rise in the wants and affections of individuals, conduce by a direct and unfailing process to the well being of society. Intellectual education is only a part of the great question; the other part is the training that shall enable a man, his circumstances duly considered, to provide for himself and his fam... | 1 | 3,627 | 687 | 4,314 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "If it be found possible or desirable to continue them, they will leave middle-class education just where they found it, helping us, however, to arrive at a better understanding as to what is required by the middle classes, and how their wants may be supplied. Trade is quite as exacting as labor; those who are to live ... | 1 | 4,203 | 214 | 4,417 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | filling creditably any position to which he may rise in the mercantile world or society. Our schemes for middle-class education have evidently originated in very different conceptions of what is needed by that class.
We mentioned in our last brief notice a paper on Girls' Industrial Training, by the Rev. J. P. Norris.... | 1 | 3,051 | 723 | 3,774 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | An interesting paper on “The Professional Training of Teachers,” by the Rev. J. G. Fitch, Principal of the Normal College of the British and Foreign School Society, states that there are in Great Britain thirty-seven Training Colleges, for the education of schoolmasters or | 1 | 3,949 | 59 | 4,008 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | mistresses; thirty-six are under the inspection of the Education Committee of the Privy Council, and in all students are prepared to pass the examinations of Her Majesty’s Inspectors, and to take charge of elementary schools. The young people who enter them have generally passed a five years’ apprenticeship under certi... | 1 | 3,691 | 441 | 4,132 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1860-07-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | One of the leading features of this department is the space devoted to Adult Education, chiefly through Mechanics' Institutes, which in Yorkshire have been more successful, because more single in their aims than elsewhere. The question of Factory Education is less fully discussed than might have been expected in a fact... | 1 | 4,075 | 161 | 4,236 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-07-01_page_58 |
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