BirminghamSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1920 - 106 Seiten |
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Adult School afterwards Art Gallery Aston Aston Hall Bailiff became began Bill Birming Bishop body borough Boulton building canal Carr's Lane carried centre Chapel CHAPTER Charles Charles Lamb Chartist Church of England citizens civic College Coventry Dale death Deritend developed district Edgbaston Edward eighteenth century election engines English erected established George Gild Government Grammar School Henry history of Birmingham Holyoake Hutton industry Institute J. S. FLETCHER James John Bright Johnson Joseph Chamberlain Josiah Mason King Edward's School king's later leaders Liberal Library Lichfield Liverpool London Lord Manchester Manor manufacture Martin's Church Meeting House mingham minister Morfitt municipal Newhall Hill Nonconformist opened organisation parish Park Parliament party Political Union Priestley prosperity R. W. Dale Rector religious Richard Richard Tangye secured Street succeeded supply Thomas Attwood thousand tion Town Council Town Hall trade University Watt William
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Seite 15 - If God show you a way in which you may lawfully get more than in another way (without wrong to your soul or to any other), if you refuse this, and choose the less gainful way, you cross one of the ends of your calling, and you refuse to be God's steward...
Seite 97 - Birmingham I have now tried for a reasonable time, and I cannot complain of being tired of it. As a town it is pitiful enough — a mean congeries of bricks, including one or two large capitalists, some hundreds of minor ones, and, perhaps, a hundred and twenty thousand sooty artisans in metals and chemical produce. The streets are ill-built, ill-paved, always flimsy in their aspect — often poor, sometimes miserable.
Seite 50 - sixties a few Birmingham men made the discovery that perhaps a strong and able Town Council might do almost as much to improve the conditions of life in the town as Parliament itself.
Seite 51 - One of its first effects was to invest the Council with new attractiveness and dignity. Able men and men of considerable social position had already discharged municipal duties, but very many of their colleagues were of a very inferior order. It now became the ambition of young men, and cultivated men, and men of high social position, to represent a ward and to become aldermen and mayors. The weaker and less effective members of the Corporation were gradually dropped, and their places filled by men...
Seite 2 - I was surprized at the place, but more at the people. They possessed a vivacity I had never beheld. I had been among dreamers, but now I saw men awake.
Seite 93 - I,) you are an idle set of people." " Sir, (said Johnson,) we are a city of philosophers, we work with our heads, and make the boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands.
Seite 78 - Council, will, grant and ordain that there may hereafter and shall be a Grammar School in the said town of Sherborne, which shall be called the Free Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth...
Seite 87 - I ought to say that the building in which they are now conducted no longer belongs to me, but has been conveyed to the Trustees of this College, as part of their endowment, so that I am now the tenant of my own foundation. This business and that of the split-ring making were my sole occupations until 1840, when accident brought me in close relations with my late valued friend and partner, Mr.
Seite 82 - ... country and the Continent: for I am persuaded that in this way alone — by the acquirement of sound, extensive, and practical scientific knowledge — can England hope to maintain her position as the chief manufacturing centre of the world. I have great and I helieve well-founded hope for the future of this foundation.
Seite 17 - Prophaness and Debauchery are greatly owing to a gross Ignorance of the Christian Religion, especially among the poorer sort ; And whereas nothing is more likely to promote the practice of Christianity and Virtue, than...