science of unbounded extent; if our duties are many, and but few our opportunities of qualifying for them, and performing them as we ought, are we justified in neglecting solid and useful branches of knowledge; are we to pursue straws, and leaves, and gossimer, while we leave the grain and fruits, which should be the support of life, to perish and to rot?

The example of some of our enlightened neighbours on the continent, may, perhaps, be worthy of our imitation. They study the antients, but they study them to read and imitate them. They are not devoted to this study alone; they make themselves masters not only of the antient, but of the modern languages; they can converse with the well-informed of other nations, and they can read their works. Thus an infinite extent of knowledge is opened to their view; and they are less likely to be the slaves of prejudice than the cloistered pedant, who expects to find the whole of knowledge in the blind reveries of antient scholiasts; whose philosophy is locked up in Plato, whose morals and politics are only derived from Aristotle, and who regards the tales of Pliny as the perfection of natural science.

It is by estimating truly the advantages of classical learning, and not by over-rating its importance, that we can give it respect, or promote its cultivation.

I think an acquaintance with the antient languages, essential to the formation of an accomplished character; but if a man would be accomplished he must not stop there; he must not expect to find in the antients what they do not contain ; or "see in Homer more than Homer knew."

In a word, without neglecting the antients, we may derive much wisdom, much taste, and much pleasure from the productions of modern writers; the study of both is compatible, if we study both as we ought..

THE END.

T. Gillet, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet-street.

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AN ARRANGED LIST OF NEW AND IMPROVED

ELEMENTARY BOOKS,

Intended for the use of Schools, Teachers, and young persons, lately published by RICHARD PHILLIPS, Bridge-street, London, and to be had of Tabart and Co. 157, New Bondstreet, and all Booksellers and Dealers in Books, with the customary allowance in the purchase of quantities.

* Most of the following School Books are so well known among Teachers of Experience and Intelligence, that it will be superfluous to make any remarks on their Claims to Attention. The Design of the several Authors, and of the Publisher, bas been to produce complete and perfect Works on the several Subjects, which should at the same time be of a Size suited to the Business and Convenience of Teachers, and of a Price adapted to the economical views of Parents.

ELEMENTS OF READING.

THE LONDON PRIMER; or First Book for Children, at the earliest Age: intended as an Introduction to Dr. Mavor's, and the various other English Spelling Books. By M. PELHAM. Price sixpence.

THE ENGLISH SPELLING BOOK, accompanied by a progressive series of easy and familiar Lessons adapted to the capacities of Children, and embellished with a variety of Engravings; the whole intended to furnish, for the use of Schools, an improved introductory Book to the first Elements of the English Language. By WILLIAM MAVOR, LL.D. Rector of Stonesfield, Vicar of Hurley, Chaplain to the Earl of Moira, &c. The Sixtieth Edition, price 1s. 6d.

THE FIRST CATECHISM for CHILDREN, containing common Things necessary to be known, and adapted to the capacity and curiosity of Children between Four and Ten Years of Age. By the Rev. DAVID BLAIR, price ninepence, or 13 to the Dozen, with the full Allowance to Schools.

READING EXERCISES for SCHOOLS, on a new and very popular plan, being a Sequel to Mavor's Spelling, and an Introduction to the Class Book, similar in arrangements to Brown's Testament. By the Rev. DAVID BLAIR, price 2s. 6d. bound.

SCRIPTURE HISTORIES; or Bible Stories; consisting of a selection of all the interesting narratives and insulated Bio-graphies and Histories contained in the Old and New Testa

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POETRY for CHILDREN, consisting of Selections of easy and interesting Pieces from the best Poets, interspersed with original Pieces. By MISS AIKIN. Adapted to Children between the age of Six and Twelve, price 2s.

AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY, for the USE of SCHOOLS, in which all insignificant, useless, vulgar, and indecent words are omitted, so that the Dictionary contains none but useful and important words, and is consequently of such length, that the whole may be committed to memory within the period of Education. By the Rev. DAVID BLAIR, price 2s. 6d.

Miscellaneous Reading.

THE CLASS BOOK; or Three Hundred and Sixty-five Reading Lessons for Schools of either sex; combining the elements of all knowledge, with a greater number of reading exercises, from the best authors, than are to be found in any other work of the same description; every lesson having a clearly defined object, and teaching some principle of science or morality, or some important truth. By the Rev. DAVID BLAIR. A new edition, printed on good paper, and in a clear type, price 5s. bound, with the full allowance to schools.

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Wolfe

Alfred

Drake

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A SELECTION of the LIVES of PLUTARCH, abridged. for the use of Schools. By WILLIAM MAVOR, LL.D., &C. Price 5s. bound, and containing accounts of the under-mentioned personages, the most illustrious and estimable characters of antiquity:

Romulus

Lycurgus

Solon

Numa

CatotheCensor Alexander

Camillus

SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHY, or the Lives and Characters of the principal Personages recorded in the Sacred Writings, practically adapted to the instruction and improvement of youth. By the Rev. J. WATKINS, LL.D. Price 5s. 6d. bound.

This important work, which teaches and applies the principles of religion under the agreeable form of biographical narratives, contains accounts of the following Scripture cha

Elijah

Jesus Christ.

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THE ELEMENTS of a POLITE EDUCATION, carefully selected from the letters of the late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son. By G. GREGORY, D. D. A new edition, in one volume, price 5s. bound.

CLASSICAL ENGLISH POETRY, selected for the use of schools and young persons, from the best authors, with some original pieces. By DR. MAVOR and MR. PRATT; with a preface, indicating the several species of Poetry, and their best modes of Recitation. Closely printed in duodecimo, price 5s. 6d. bound.