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Schools, 1840

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Original Correspondence. Colonial Churches and Schools. No. VI. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 August 1840 · page 3

SIR. The subject of my present communication will be devoted exclusively to the clergy and schools of New South Wales, and more…

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Mechanics' School of Arts

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 8 August 1840 · page 3

Dr. Arthur A'Beekett delivered his sixth lecture on Wednesday, the subject of which was Organic Chemistry: the substance was as follows:— Organic chemistry related to all animal and vegetable beings,…

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Domestic Intelligence. Mechanics' School of Arts. Chemistry.—no. Vi

The Colonist · Tuesday 11 August 1840 · page 2

THE following concludes Mr. Surgeon a Beckett's Lectures on Chemistry at the School of Arts:— LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,—Organic Chemistry relates to all animal and vegetable beings, and to…

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The Wollongong School House

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 12 August 1840 · page 2

It has been seen, from the former notices in reference to this ease, that an attempt was made to get the whole community to memorialize the Government to open this building, for the…

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Domestic Intelligence. Mechanics' School of Arts

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 12 August 1840 · page 2

On Wednesday evening last, Mr. Arthur A'Beckett delivered his concluding lecture for the season, on chemistry, in which he took a luminous and comprehensive review of organic…

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Domestic Intelligence. School of Arts

The Sydney Herald · Friday 14 August 1840 · page 1

On Wednesday Mr. R. P. Welsh delivered the first of a scries of lectures on the senses of vision and hearing. [?] commenced his course by making a few remarks on the scientific…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Saturday 15 August 1840 · page 2

On Wednesday evening, last, Mr. P W[?] delivered his first lecture, at the School of Arts, on the properties of sound, and the manner by which sounds are conveyed to the car. He commenced…

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Original Correspondence[?] Colonial Churches and Schools. No. VI[?] To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1840 · page 3

SIR, In my present communication, I purpose giving some account of voluntaryism in America. In so doing, I am well aware of the…

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Mechanics' School of Arts

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 18 August 1840 · page 3

Mr. R. P. Welsh delivered the first of a series of four lectures on Vision and Hearing on Wednesday evening. He regretted that he had to follow such able lecturers as the two gentlemen who had…

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Colonial Churches and Schools. No. VIII. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 20 August 1840 · page 3

SIR, "In my last communication I laid before you a Statistical account of the various denominations in America, by which it appears that more…

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Domestic Intelligence. Mechanics' School of Arts. Mr. Welsh's Second Lecture

The Colonist · Saturday 22 August 1840 · page 2

MR. WELCH commenced his second Lecture on the Sense of Hearing, by saying, that he did not intend these Lectures to be considered as upon the Science of Acoustics, as had been…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Saturday 22 August 1840 · page 2

On Wednesday evening last, Mr. R. P. Welsh, delivered to a numerous audience, his second. lecture on the sense of being, at the School o' Arts. Pitt street. Mr. Welsh commenced, by…

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Original Correspondence. Colonial Churches and Schools. No. IX. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 27 August 1840 · page 2

SIR, In concluding the course of letters on Colonial Churches and Schools, I am naturally led to review the arguments which I have advanced,…

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Mechanics' School of Arts. Mr. Welch's Third Lecture

The Colonist · Saturday 29 August 1840 · page 2

Mr. R. P. WELCH commenced his lecture on the sense of vision, by alluding to the inclemen state of the weather, which probably had induced many persons to believe it would be postponed,…

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Roads, Schools, and Newspapers

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 2 September 1840 · page 4

The first work of the colonist, said Benjamin Franklin, "is to cut a road and establish a newspaper." Colonization has, to use an American phrase, "gone-a-head"…

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Public Examination of the Scholars of the British and Foreign School Society

The Sydney Herald · Friday 4 September 1840 · page 1

On May 12th, an examination of the boys taught by the British and Foreign School Society took place in the Society's school-house, Borough-road. The examination was announced to commence at 11…

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Domestic Intelligence. Mechanics' School of Arts. Mr. Welch's Fourth Lecture

The Colonist · Saturday 5 September 1840 · page 2

MR. R. P. WELCH commenced his lecture by saying that in his last he had alluded to the composition and refraction of light, and would now say that it was also reflected, and that bodies…

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The Colonist. Thursday, September 10, 1840. Colonial Politics. Canada Clergy Reserves. Australian Church and School Corporation

The Colonist · Thursday 10 September 1840 · page 2

THE following is the judgment delivered by Lord Chief Justice TINDAL in the House of Lords, as reported in The Times. In remarking on this judgment, one of the…

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Mechanic's School of Arts. Lecture on Oratory by R. Therry, Esq

The Colonist · Tuesday 15 September 1840 · page 2

ON Wednesday evening last, Mr. Therry delivered a lecture on Oratory to a numerous and highly respectable audience in the Theatre of the Mechanics' School of Arts, of which the following…

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Mr. THERRY'S third LECTURE on ORATORY, delivered in the Mechanics' School of ARTS, on Wednesday last

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 15 September 1840 · page 2

It is a remarkable and distinguishing feature of Sculpture and Eloquence, that both these arts may be said to have started at once into life and grace at the Promethean touch of their respective masters—…

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