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. 1845 Excerpt: ...of the bible, and religion in the world. To tell you about them all would be impossible, as they amount to some hundreds, to say nothing of the schools and visiting societies that belong tci the different places of worship. However, you shall have a few of them. I ought, when speaking of the hospitals, to have ...
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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. 1845 Excerpt: ...of the bible, and religion in the world. To tell you about them all would be impossible, as they amount to some hundreds, to say nothing of the schools and visiting societies that belong tci the different places of worship. However, you shall have a few of them. I ought, when speaking of the hospitals, to have mentioned St. Bartholmew's, St. George's, and others. The Royal Humane Society has been very useful, in recovering people taken out of the water, to all appearance dead. It provides proper machines to search the water with, for persons supposed to be drowned. It uses the best means to restore such as are found, and gives rewards to all who save the lives of their fellow creatures. Christ's Church Hospital is a famous school, that educates more than a thousand boys; but if ever lads wore ugly clothes, these boys do. Long blue gowns with a leathern strap for a girdle, yellow petticoats and yellow stockings, with a little cap stuck on one side of the head. You never saw such frights. Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals are capital charities, but I have already spoken of them. There is the London Society for the Improvement and Encouragement of Female Servants. A capital institution, that is not so much encouraged as it ought to be. It gives money and books to good servants, who live for a certain time with a master or mistress, and finds places for them, and helps them in sickness, and makes them a present if they marry. The comfort of families depends much upon the good conduct of servants, and therefore such a society ought to be well supported. There is plenty of work to do in London to clear the streets of beggars and deceivers, who go about getting money, pretending to be sea captains, and sailors, and so on; and the Society for the Suppression of Mendi...
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