[200] Mémoires de Diderot, ed. 1841, ii, 25. [↑]
[201] These had begun as early as 1753 (Micromégas). [↑]
[202] Works, ed. 1842, i, pp. cix, 445; ii, 628, 728. Cp. the poem Kew Gardens, left in MS. [↑]
[203] I here take a few sentences from my paper, The Church and Education, 1903. [↑]
[204] Short History, p. 717. The Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools, by Nicholas Carlisle, 1818, shows that schools were founded in all parts of the country by private bequest or public action during the eighteenth century. [↑]
[205] Collis, in Transactions of the Social Science Association, 1857, p. 126. According to Collis, 48 had been founded by James I, 28 under Charles I, 16 under the Commonwealth, 36 under Charles II, 4 under James II, 7 under William and Mary, 11 under Anne, 17 under George I, and 7 under George II. He does not indicate their size. [↑]
[206] Green, as last cited. [↑]
[207] Gibbins, Industrial History of England, 1894, p. 151. [↑]
[208] Hist. of England under George III, ed. 1865, ii, 83. [↑]
[209] The document is given in Ritchie’s Life of Hume, 1807, pp. 53–55. [↑]