 my education was of the most ordinary description, consisting of little more than the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a common day-school. My hours out of school were passed at home and in the streets.  The Medical times and gazette - Page 161870Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1871 - 670 pages
...over, to enable them to give him any instruction ; and we may believe the truth of his own words when he says, " My education was of the most ordinary description,...dayschool. My hours out of school were passed at home and in the streets." When twelve years of age, he became an errand boy to a Mr. Riebau, a bookbinder, who,... | |
 | 1870 - 624 pages
...and where, years later, he nursed his little sister in Manchester Square. ' My education,' he says, ' was of the ' most ordinary description, consisting...rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic, at a common ' day school ; my hours out of school were passed at home and ' in the streets.' In 1804, when thirteen... | |
 | 1872 - 858 pages
...over a coachhouse in Jacob's Well Mews, near Manchester Square, in London. His education consisted of little more than the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a common day school. His hours out of school were passed at home and in the streets. At the present day, when... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1870 - 314 pages
...Spanish Place, and where, at a later period, he took care of his little sister in Manchester Square. He says, "my education was of the most ordinary description,...rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a common day school. My hours out of school were passed at home and in the streets." Only a few yards from Jacob's... | |
 | English cyclopaedia - 1872 - 640 pages
...Spanish-place, and where he took care of his little sister in Manchester-square. His education consisted of little more than the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic. At the age of thirteen he was placed in a bookseller's shop. No. 2, Blandford-strect ; in October, 1805,... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1869 - 658 pages
...marbles iu Spanish Place, and where, years later, he took care of his little sister in Manchester Square. He says, " My education was of the most ordinary description,...day-school. My hours out of school were passed at home and in the streets." Only a few yards off was a bookseller's shop, No. 2 Blandford Street ; there, as a... | |
 | Michael Faraday, Bence Jones - 1870 - 440 pages
...OF BIEBAUS SHOP. where, at a later period, he took care of his little sister in Manchester Square. He says, ' my education was of the most ordinary description,...day-school. My hours out of school were passed at home and in the streets.' 1803. 1804, Only a few yards from Jacob's Well Mews is a bookseller's shop, at No.... | |
 | 1870 - 746 pages
...played at marbles in Spanishplace, and where, at a later period, he took care of his little sister m Manchester-square. He says—' My education was of...rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic, at a common (lay-school. My hours out of school were passed at home and in the streets.' " During the time he was... | |
 | Bence Jones - 1870 - 462 pages
...OF RIERAUS SHOP. where, at a later period, he took care of his little sister in Manchester Square. He says, ' My education was of the most ordinary description,...rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a commpn day-school. My hours out of school were passed at home and in the streets.' 1803. 1804. Only... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1871 - 666 pages
...over, to enable them to give him any instruction ; and we may believe the truth of his own words when he says, " My education was of the most ordinary description,...dayschool. My hours out of school were passed at home and in the streets." When twelve years of age, he became an errand boy to a Mr. Riebau, a bookbinder, who,... | |
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