A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in Our Foreign Plantations And
A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in Our Foreign Plantations And
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753
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Is it likely, that fellowfhips of fifty or fixty pounds a year (hould tempt abler or worthier men, than benefices of many times their value ? And except able and worthy men do firft engage in this affair, with a refolution to exert themielves in forming the manners of the youth, and giving fhem a proper education, it is evident the miiBon and the college will be but in a very bad way. This inconvenience feems the moft difficult to pro- vide againft, and, if not provided againft, it will be the ...moft likely to obftrucl: any defign of this na- ture. So true it is, that where ignorance or ill manners once take place in a feminary, they are fure to be handed down in a fucccflion of illiterate or worth left men. But this apprehenfion, which feems fo well grounded, that a college in any part of America would either lie unprovided, or be worfe provided than their churches are, hath no place in Bermuda j there being at this time feveral gentlemen in all refpe&s very well qualified, and in poffeifion of good preferments, and fair profpecls at home, who having ferioufly confidered the great benefit that may arife to the church and to mankind from fuch an undertaking, are ready to engage in it, and to dedicate the remainder of their lives to theinftru6l- ing the youth of America, and profecuting their own ftudies upon a very moderate fubfiftence in a retirement, fo fweet, and fo fecure, and every way fo well fitted for a place of education, and ftudy, as Bermuda.
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