Infant Education or Remarks on the Importance of Educating the Infant Poor, from the Age of Eighteen Months to Seven Years, with an Account of the Spitalfields' Infant School by Samuel Wilderspin (Paperback / softback, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...': '': 'A' fl;, i'-'.': v'The officer stated to the same effect, and added that, in a secret pocket in his: !jacket, he fbtlnd fourteen shillings and Vibe-pence. It wis the practice of gangs of pickpockets 'to have a child like tbis to commit trie robbery, and'hand the plunder to them. ' Witness wentto'jhis parents, who said he had been absent'seven weeks, and they would have thing tb dowitlvliim. i ': !ie Mr. Baron Garrow, iufeelingterrnfj lamented that a child of such tender years'should be So depraved.. He added--- I suppose, gentlemen, I'Heed only ask you to deliver your verdict.'-'-i - His Lordship then observed that he would consult his learned brother, as to'the'ttTftfiner the prisoner should be disposed ofi', u$heyit length decided, that although it might seem harsh, the Court would record against him fourteen years' transportation; and doubt but government would place him in some school, where, if he behaved well, it would t be carried into full effect. I cant dismiss this subject without returning thanks to the author of all good, that he should have strengthened the hearts of persons to venture, even their lives, to improve the condition of the prisoners in Newgate and elsewhere, and that females can be found, who will visit those abodes of vice and misery, to ameliorate the condition of their fellow-creatures; this is a lasting hor to their sex, and I trust they will always retain their pre-eminence in endeavouring to do what is really good and useful. But it is ackwledged that prevention is better than cure; how much better is it then to endeavour to sow the seeds of virtue, piety, and holiness in the infant mind, before it imbibe principles of dishonesty, and all the evils attending it! In the former, there a...