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Page 140 - NO man shall teach either in public school, or private house, but such as shall be allowed by the Bishop of the diocese, or Ordinary of the place, under his hand and seal, being found meet as well for his learning and dexterity in teaching, as for sober and honest conversation, and also for right understanding of God's true religion...
Page 156 - God gave us freedom, as he gave to certain trouts, by the agency of a benevolent individual, who let them out of my lady's private pond into a large mill-dam ; but there were pikes in the mill-dam that were not...
Page 133 - ... from their respective pastors; but where the number of non-Romanists is sufficiently great to support a separate school, the minister of that persuasion, whatever it be, is charged exclusively with the same duties as, in the general schools, are imposed on the parish priest.
Page 85 - In these resolutions the ancient discipline of the German church is asserted, with respect to nominations and elections to ecclesiastical benefices, and it is declared that " no bulls, briefs, or ordinances of the Pope, shall be binding on the bishops, unless the latter regularly signify their formal assent.
Page 134 - ... and in those of merely scholastic nature, as well as in the conduct of the teachers, he addresses his remarks to the inspector of the district. The teachers at all the popular schools are required to produce testimonials from the normal school at which they have been instructed, and receive their appointment from the diocesan consistory, or from the provincial chief of any special religions for which they may be intended, but require in all cases the confirmation of the landesstelle.
Page 264 - public spirit," and " nationality." Their corrections are sometimes exceedingly ludicrous, as appears from the following example of a work treating of conflicts quite unconnected with the Austrian empire, where the expression " heroic champions" was cut down to " brave soldiers ;" and " a band of youthful heroes, who flocked around the glorious standard of their country," became " a considerable number of young men who voluntarily enlisted themselves for the public service.
Page 133 - ... may enable him to do so) to such as, for want of clothing, are prevented attending the schools. Where children of different creeds are intermixed in one school, religious instruction and...
Page 151 - Austria in 1834— 36,1 writes: The Universities exhibit a striking contrast with those of the rest of Germany. In them are no drunken brawls — scarcely any duels — no troops of students straggling six abreast through the streets with lengthy pipes in their mouths and fumes of beer in their heads; no popular professor descending at midnight to the street, humbly to thank the spirited youths for the compliment of their noisy serenade.2 But his explanation of this is sinister: the students, he...
Page 129 - In the larger towns are also commercial academies, termed real schulen, in which are comprised two divisions of scholars : the one general, receiving instruction in accounts, geography, and history ; the other special, having, in addition thereto, teachers in book-keeping and the principles of trade for mercantile pupils, in natural history and rural economy for those intended for agricultural life, in mathematics, chemistry, and principles of art for students in the higher arts, and in various foreign...