All these academies are in general called boarding-schools.
Some
few retain the old name of schools only, though it is possible that
in real merit they may excel the so much-boasted of academies.
It is in general the clergy, who have small incomes, who set up
these schools both in town and country, and grown up people who are
foreigners, are also admitted here to learn the English language.
Mr. G - charged for board, lodging, and instruction in the English,
two guineas a-week. He however, who is desirous of perfecting
himself in the English, will do better to go some distance into the
country, and board himself with any clergyman who takes scholars,
where he will hear nothing but English spoken, and may at every
opportunity be taught both by young and old.
There are in England, besides the two universities, but few great
schools or colleges. In London, there are only St. Paul's and
Westminster schools; the rest are almost all private institutions,
in which there reigns a kind of family education, which is certainly
the most natural, if properly conducted. Some few grammar schools,
or Latin schools, are notwithstanding here and there to be met with,
where the master receives a fixed salary, besides the ordinary
profits of the school paid by the scholars.
You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running
about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the
feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.
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