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HIS SCHOOLING.
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1803.

Æt. 11-12.

enter at all into her son's pursuits. She was particularly neat and nice in her household arrangements, and exerted herself to the utmost for her husband and children.'

The home of Michael Faraday was in Jacob's Well Mews from the time he was five years old until he went to Blandford Street. Very little is known of his life during these eight years. He himself has pointed out where he played at marbles in Spanish Place, and where, at a later period, he took care of his little sister in Manchester Square.
OLD VIEW OF RIEBAU'S SHOP. He says, 'My education was of the most ordinary description, consisting of little more than the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a common day-school. My hours out of school were passed at home and in the streets.'

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