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must have preserved a profound incog ., as the loyalty of Buckingham would not have made it a desirable place of residence for this abbreviator of monarchy . Moreover , the present buildings are evidently modern in character .
There are plenty of good old inns . As usual in all country places , there is a " White Hart , " a commodious and handsome modernization of an older house ; a " Woolpack , " which , though of insignificant claims to antiquity , as compared with the venerable one in Deansgate , Manchester , still possesses an every Monday celebrity in the shape of a calf market , said to be the largest in England ; a " Swanand Castle , " which , besides many of the usual hotel attractions , possesses 5
a theatre . Although the company make but a few weeksstay in Buckingham , they are generally fairly patronized , and " bespeaks " send the manager away without any suicidal ideas . Wool-halls and tan-yards are the chief features in the manufacturing way , the shopa are well-to-do in appearance , and , poor or rich , Buckingham still keeps up a couple of banks , between which a sort of York and Lancaster rivalry exists . As we have no money in either , we sincerely wish prosperity to both . And " so much for Buckingham . '
Our Sons And Their Instructors.
OUR SONS AND THEIR INSTRUCTORS .
Education ! the subject that is most continually in the mind of the statesman , at the heart of the clergyman , in the project of the Jesuit , the hope of the philanthropist , the fear of the ignorant , the vexed question of all parties what is to be done about so great a matter ? "We see that wheresoever " know-nothingism" exists , there flourish vice and crime ; that where knowledge is , there are
prudence and sobriety ; nevertheless , sooner than give up our pet opinion , let there be no knowledge . That is our conclusion as a nation with regard to " our poorer brethren . " But with regard to the direct bearing of the thing upon ourselves , upon the vast majority of Masons , let us consider how fares it with our own sons at schools and colleges ; it is really worth
the trouble , for from the age of seven to that of seventeen or twenty , after which the butterfly—a university term—commences , this grub or chrysalis life of schoolboy is common to all of them : a great notch out of their life ' s calendar , a quarter of their whole existence , which it must be important how they spend ; of some consequence , too , surely , the amount of joy and sorrow thus experienced ; and moreover as they may die while yet in tutelage ; let us therefore consider of it .
Of opportunities of education for the higher and middle classes there are myriads ; adapted , as it would seem , to every case , and adjusted to any length of purse-string : public schools , grammarschools , military colleges , royal foundations , genteel seminaries , select establishments , academies , lyceums , and charity-schools .
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must have preserved a profound incog ., as the loyalty of Buckingham would not have made it a desirable place of residence for this abbreviator of monarchy . Moreover , the present buildings are evidently modern in character .
There are plenty of good old inns . As usual in all country places , there is a " White Hart , " a commodious and handsome modernization of an older house ; a " Woolpack , " which , though of insignificant claims to antiquity , as compared with the venerable one in Deansgate , Manchester , still possesses an every Monday celebrity in the shape of a calf market , said to be the largest in England ; a " Swanand Castle , " which , besides many of the usual hotel attractions , possesses 5
a theatre . Although the company make but a few weeksstay in Buckingham , they are generally fairly patronized , and " bespeaks " send the manager away without any suicidal ideas . Wool-halls and tan-yards are the chief features in the manufacturing way , the shopa are well-to-do in appearance , and , poor or rich , Buckingham still keeps up a couple of banks , between which a sort of York and Lancaster rivalry exists . As we have no money in either , we sincerely wish prosperity to both . And " so much for Buckingham . '
Our Sons And Their Instructors.
OUR SONS AND THEIR INSTRUCTORS .
Education ! the subject that is most continually in the mind of the statesman , at the heart of the clergyman , in the project of the Jesuit , the hope of the philanthropist , the fear of the ignorant , the vexed question of all parties what is to be done about so great a matter ? "We see that wheresoever " know-nothingism" exists , there flourish vice and crime ; that where knowledge is , there are
prudence and sobriety ; nevertheless , sooner than give up our pet opinion , let there be no knowledge . That is our conclusion as a nation with regard to " our poorer brethren . " But with regard to the direct bearing of the thing upon ourselves , upon the vast majority of Masons , let us consider how fares it with our own sons at schools and colleges ; it is really worth
the trouble , for from the age of seven to that of seventeen or twenty , after which the butterfly—a university term—commences , this grub or chrysalis life of schoolboy is common to all of them : a great notch out of their life ' s calendar , a quarter of their whole existence , which it must be important how they spend ; of some consequence , too , surely , the amount of joy and sorrow thus experienced ; and moreover as they may die while yet in tutelage ; let us therefore consider of it .
Of opportunities of education for the higher and middle classes there are myriads ; adapted , as it would seem , to every case , and adjusted to any length of purse-string : public schools , grammarschools , military colleges , royal foundations , genteel seminaries , select establishments , academies , lyceums , and charity-schools .