 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - Bombay (India) - 1884 - 592 pages
...proposals except the greatness of the expense — to which I would oppose the magnitude of the object. It is difficult to imagine an undertaking in which...country where such habits are required, it is this. We have all often heard of the ills of early marriages and overflowing population ; of the savings... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - India - 1884 - 596 pages
...proposals except the greatness of the expense — to •which I would oppose the magnitude of the object. It is difficult to imagine an undertaking in which...country where such habits are required, it is this. We have all often heard of the ills of early marriages and overflowing population ; of the savings... | |
 | James Sutherland Cotton - 1892 - 250 pages
...the general subject of education, he wrote, in language that has not yet lost its significance : ' It is difficult to imagine an undertaking in which...country where such habits are required, it is this. We have all often heard of the ills of early marriage and overflowing population ; of the savings of... | |
 | James Sutherland Cotton - 1896 - 254 pages
...to the general subject of education, he wrote, in language that has not yet lost its significance : 'It is difficult to imagine an undertaking in which...country where such habits are required, it is this. We have all often heard of the ills of early marriage and overflowing population ; of the savings of... | |
 | Ramsay Muir - India - 1915 - 440 pages
...situated. 109. THE NEED FOR AN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM From a Minute by Mountstuart Elphinstone, March 1324. 43. It is now well understood that in all countries the...country where such habits are required, it is this. We have all often heard of the ills of early marriages and overflowing population ; of the savings... | |
 | Ernest Llewellyn Woodward - Great Britain - 1962 - 712 pages
...governor of Bombay from 1819 to 1824, drew up a minute on the need for an educational system in India. It is now well understood that in all countries the...self-respect from which all other good qualities spring. ... If there be a wish to contribute to the abolition of the horrors of selfimmolation, and of infanticide,... | |
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It is difficult to imagine an undertaking in which our duty, our interest, and our honour are more immediately concerned. It is now well understood that in all countries the happiness of the poor depends in a great measure on their education. It is by... 