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Schools, 1839

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Correspondence. the Teacher and the Taught. To the Editor of The Australian

The Australian · Tuesday 1 January 1839 · page 3

SIR—It is hardly credible that, in the present advanced stage of physical and moral science, men pretending to education should be found sufficiently daring to attempt to play off the…

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Father Tom and the Pope; or a Night at the Vatican. [As related by Mr. Michael Hefferman, Master of the National School at Tallymactaggart, in the county of Leitrim, to a friend during his official visit to Dublin, for the purpose of studying Political Economy, in the Spring of 1838.] CHAPTER I. How Father Tom Went to Take Pot-luck at the Vatican

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 28 January 1839 · page 4

WHEN his Riv'rence was in Room, ov coorse the Pope axed him to take pot look wid him. More be token, it was on a Friday; but, for all that, there was plenty of mate; for the Pope gev…

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The Bishop's School. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 5 February 1839 · page 3

SIR, A certain newspaper styled The Colonist has of late resumed its wonted im pertinence towards the Right Reverend…

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Mechanics' School of Arts

The Australian · Thursday 7 February 1839 · page 2

The annual general meeting of the members of the Mechanics' School of Arts, took place in the lecture room on Tuesday evening, according to advertisement. The secretary and treasurer…

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Domestic Intelligence. School of Arts

The Sydney Herald · Friday 8 February 1839 · page 2

The Annual General Meeting of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was held on Tuesday evening, in the ball of the Institution, Pitt-street. The business was commenced at seven o'clock…

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Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Friday Morning, February 8, 1839. Nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice. SHAKESPEARE. Mechanics' School of Arts

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1839 · page 2

The following resolutions will show the increasing importance and prosperity of this institution. The Rev. Mr. Carmichael, the late Dr. Bland, Dr. Nicholson, and a few others whose names we cannot…

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Mechanics' School of Arts

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1839 · page 2

The annual general meeting of the members of the Mechanics' School of Arts, took place in the lecture room on Tuesday evening, according to advertisement. The secretary and treasurer…

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Domestic Intelligence. the Australian School Society

The Colonist · Saturday 2 March 1839 · page 2

By a typographical error, copied from one newspaper into another, we regret that both we and some of our contemporaries have advertised the Annual General Meeting of this excellent…

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Australian School Society

The Australian · Saturday 2 March 1839 · page 2

This very excellent society will hold its fourth Annual Meeting at the School of Arts, Pitt-street, on Tuesday, the fifth instant, and it is hoped that there will be a numerous attendance…

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Domestic Intelligence. Australian School Society

The Sydney Herald · Friday 8 March 1839 · page 2

The fourth Annual General Meeting of the Australian School Society, on the priciples of the British and Foreign School Society, was held on Tuesday evening in the Theatre of the School of…

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Australian School Society

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1839 · page 2
Also in The Colonist

The Annual Meeting of the friends of this Society was held on Tuesday last, being the Fourth Anniversary. The chair was taken at 7 o'clock, p.m. by Capt Joseph Long Innes,…

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St. Phillip's School

The Colonist · Wednesday 13 March 1839 · page 2

THE Annual Examination of the St. Phillip's School was held yesterday in the School-rooms on Church Hill, adjoining the Episcopal Church. The number of children in attendance was 345…

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Literature and Science. REVIEW. Lectures on the Poets and Poetry of Great Britain, delivered at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts. By W. A'BECKETT, Esq.—Sydney. 1839

The Colonist · Saturday 16 March 1839 · page 4

THE age of poetry, or rather of poets, is at an end, or nearly so, and an interregnum of criticism has commenced: the two arts, the Poetical and the Critical, have rarely if ever flourished…

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Domestic Intelligence School of Industry

The Sydney Herald · Monday 25 March 1839 · page 2

We have been favoured with a copy of the report of this valuable and unpretending institution for the year 1838, which, as it is very short, we will lay before our readers:—"Your…

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School of Industry

The Colonist · Wednesday 3 April 1839 · page 2

THIS year's report of the Managing Committee of this benevolent and useful Institution is very gratifying indeed. The balance, of unappropriated funds remaining in the hands of the…

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The School of Arts

The Sydney Herald · Friday 12 April 1839 · page 2

It is just six years since a few persons who, [?] interested in the subject with the Revered [?] Carmichael at their head, commenced hol[?] meetings for the purpose of establishing a [?]…

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The Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts

The Colonist · Saturday 13 April 1839 · page 2

THE sixth Annual Report of this very useful institution has just issued from the press, and having been politely favoured by the Secretary with a copy, we have perused it from beginning…

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The Mechanics' School of Arts

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 April 1839 · page 2

Circumstances have prevented our noticing at an earlier period tlie interesting Report of the Mechanics' School of Arts lately published, but it is not yet too late…

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School of Arts

The Australian · Saturday 27 April 1839 · page 2

The report of the proceedings end affairs of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, for tho pilot year, having been published, and a copy forwarded to us, we consider that by giving it a…

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