AN ESSAY

ON THE

STUDY OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE

IN OUR

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.

AT THE EXPENSE OF

WRITING AND SPEAKING IN ENGLISH,

ESPECIALLY EXTEMPORANEOUSLY.

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BY THOMAS A. MERRILL, D. D.,

LATE PASTOR OF THE CONGREGATIONALIST CHURCH IN MIDDLEBURY, VT.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY LEAVITT & ALLEN.

1860.

Educ 2248.60

1861. Jan. igift

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I'm Accordance with the

will of

the Autions

Thomas it. Merrice, &.&.

:

Introductory Note.

This Essay, by the late Dr. Merrill, was prepared and read, by appointment, before the Addison Association, in June, 1853.

It was afterwards revised, and is now published for gratuitous distribution to " Colleges, Academies and leading minds throughout the United States," by direction of the author.

Beside making provision for the above purpose, Dr. Merrill manifested his sense of the importance of the Rhetorical department of education, by leaving $1,500 to Middlebury College-the yearly interest of which sum is to be paid in premiums of $30, $25, $20 and $15, to the four members of the Sophomore Class, who in a public exercise for this purpose, shall be declared "to excel in the ease and gracefulness of their manner in the intonations and modulations of voice-in the propriety and elegance of their gestures, and pre-eminently in the forcible manner in which they impress truth on other minds."

Any person who wishes a copy of this Essay, will be supplied without cost, by addressing REV. A. BORDMAN LAMBERT, Salem, Washington Co., N. Y.