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Page 303 - The Welsh language is a vast drawback to Wales, and a manifold barrier to the moral progress and commercial prosperity of the people.
Page 4 - Whether in the country, or among the furnaces, the Welsh element is never found at the top of the social scale, nor in its own body does it exhibit much variety of gradation.
Page 288 - Johnson The Parliamentary Commission was set up after a motion was introduced in 1846 praying the Queen 'To direct an inquiry to be made into the State of Education in the Principality of Wales'. Kay-Shuttleworth's letter of instructions included a reference to the need to form an estimate 'of the influence which an improved education might be expected to produce on the general condition of society, and its moral and religious progress'.
Page 392 - as entirely the fault of their employers, who give them far less tendance and care than they bestow on their cattle, and who, with few exceptions, use and regard them as so much brute force, instrumental to wealth, but as nowhere involving claims to human sympathy.
Page 162 - I AM the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage.
Page 328 - The pwnc is generally printed, and always chanted at the schools about here. They often meet at evening schools in private houses for the preparation of the pwnc, and this tends to immoralities between the young persons of both sexes, who frequently spend the night afterwards in hay lofts together.
Page 26 - ... This school is kept upstairs in two rooms of the master's house. There is a door to each room from the landing at the top of the stairs, but the master cannot see all the scholars from one room while they are in the other. He generally sits with the elementary classes." Of another he says : — " The floor was of the bare earth, very uneven and rather damp. There was a fire in an iron stove placed in the middle of the room. The steam which arose from it was quite insufferable, so much so that...
Page 9 - ... Tom Morris in the rank. I was coming up Gellygwlwnog field, arm in arm with him, after burning Mr Chambers's ricks of hay ; and he had a gun in the other hand, and Tom said, " Here's a hare," and he up with his gun and shot it slap down — and it was a horse — Mr Chambers's horse. One of the party stuck the horse with a knife — the blood flowed — and Tom Morris held his hand under the blood, and called upon the persons to come forward and dip their fingers in it, and take it as a sacrifice...
Page 519 - ... in Talyllyn and the adjoining parish of Llanfihangel. The house accommodation is wretched. The cottages are formed of a few loose fragments of rock and shale, piled together without mortar or whitewash. The floors are of earth ; the roofs are wattled, and many of these hovels have no window.
Page 4 - In this direction too, from causes which it is out of my province to particularise, he has moved under the same isolating destiny, and his worship, like his life, has grown different from that of the classes over him. Nor has he failed of tangible results in his chosen province of independent exertion. He has raised the buildings, and maintains the ministry of his worship over the whole face of his country, to an extent adequate to his accommodation.