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REVIEW. €t Still pleased ta praise, yet not afraid to blame."—Pope.
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The Introduction , by Mr . Shephero , contains many judicious remarks on the importance and necessity of education , on the circumstances under which the discipline of public schools
and * colleges may properly be preferred , and when a course of private education may properly be preferred ; on the comparative importance of classical literature ; and on the education of the female sex . - Mr . S . then
proceeds to treat on the philosophy of language , and on the most effectual and speedy methods of learning the dead and the living languages ; concluding with suitable directions for learning the Latin and the Greek tongues , and pointing out the best grammars and elementary books ibr facilitating the acquirement of both *
The first chapter of the w 6 rk itself contains a Dissertation , by Mr . Joyce , on the Belles £ ettres , or Principles of Fine Writings which he commences by tracing the most eminent authors
in this department through five periods , the Athenian , Roman , Arabian , Italian ahd Modern ; and then proceeds to point out its general utility , as calculated to refine the manners
and mend the heart , as well a £ to improve the understanding ; its particular advantage when applied to the Hebrew language , as enabling the student of the Scriptures to enter with greater pleasure into the simplicity , grandeur and beauty of the poetry and
eloquence with which they abound ; to the Greek , as containing the works of the most eminent poets / historians and orators , and also as being the language in which the charter of our
salvation was delivered ; tatheEatin , as also presenting us with a set of fine writers , and as being the vehicle of correspondence among men of letters , and , as such , a kind of universal lan > - guage . After several remarks on
general grammar , rhetoric and criticism , the author refers to JLouginus , Quintilian , Horace ^ Addison , Hvrd and Kames . . . , . Inf the next chapter , oil Language , we have a review qg the question , whether it was pfcjgiualJy revealed , or a lnnuan invention , in which we
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Artd . \ . ~ Systematic Education , or Elementary Instruction in the vari ' otis Departments of Literature and Science ; with Practical Rules for ^ studying each Branch of Useful Knowledge * By the Rev . W . Shepherd , the Rev . J . Joyce , and the Rev . L . Carpenter , LL . D . Second Edition . 2 vols . £ 1 8 s .
WE feel ashamed that this very useful work should have come to a second edition , before we had discharged the debt of acknowledgment we owe to its authors , on the behalf of the rising generation .
Many of those who are now passing off the stage are sensible of great obligations to the projector and authors of the work , entitled , The Preceptor . Some parts of that work , particularly Dr ; Johnson ' s General Preface , Duncan ' s Logic , and Fordyce ' s Moral
Philosophy , will never be out of date : but the march of science having rendered the greater number of the treatises which composed it , obsolete , a tiew work of a similar kind had long been anxiously looked for , which
might guide young persons , between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five , to such a course of reading , as might give them a decided taste for the acquisition of wholesome knowledge , and qualify them for acting their part in future life with honour to
themselves , satisfaction to their friends , and advantage to the world at large * The Authors of the work before us have very creditably supplied our youth with this important desideratum . They have afforded them such elementary instruction as might serve for
a good preparative for futurfe reading , afcd pointed out the best sources of information on the various important subjects which they have set before their readers . Accordingly , their work , we are persuaded , has already been found eminently useful , not only
to the student , who may not have Cfijoyed the personal assistance of a scientific preceptor , but also to preceptors themselves , when engaged in conducting the Studies of pupil * who are somewhat advanced iu scholastic attainments *
Review. €T Still Pleased Ta Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame."—Pope.
REVIEW . € t Still pleased ta praise , yet not afraid to blame . "—Pope .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 516, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/44/
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