A Vindication of the Enquiry Into Charitable Abuses; With an Exposure of the Misrepresentations Ontained in the Quarterly Review - Brossura
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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. 1819. Excerpt: ... We shall not go into any further detail on the passages adduced by Mr. Clarke, to prove that the founder contemplated that the scholars might not be entirely destitute: such as that if any friend of the scholars came to them at the College, he might be entertained, but that it was to be at the scholars' expence: that only one gown was allowed, &c. Ego (A. B.J jura quod tun habco aliquid dt quo mihi constat Wide possum expindere annuatim ultra quinque Piarcai sterUngat is the oath of every scholar: which Mr. Brougham renders--I hare but £ 5. 6s. to spend.--Mr. Clarke suggests, that from the liberality of his friends, a scholar may have that, and more; and reads, " I have not any property which I can call my own, as to be able to spend from it yearly above five marks." But this maximum was only an additional restrictive caution superadded to the original directing words, pauper et indigent. The founder throughout shews tho utmost care #ot to leave any loophole by Which his directions might be evaded.4 It is obvious, that the property of children cannot, in most cases, be considered as any criterion of their real situation or expectances, and if the actual possession of five marks a year was the sole ground of exclusion, the first duke's children in the kingdom, might be admitted under the" description of indigent and poor scholars, swearing conscientiously they had not £3. 6s. which they could call their own to spend: but these arguments are too trifling to controvert in earnest. Mr. Brougham in his Pamphlet says, no boy was to be admitted beyond twelve years of age, though this direction was disregarded. It appears, however, that in a subsequent part of the statute there is a provision for the admission of scholar till the age of seventeen, if th...
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