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M * Crie , Laing ; for Ireland , Leland 5 for Wales , Warrington ; after which fpllows a detailed account of original authorities , chronicles , ike . from Bishop ( Mr . s calls him Mr . ) Nicholson ' s Historical Library : and the chapter concludes ; "In the perusal of these , as indeed of any historical work $ t the
Student nyuat not ifeglect the requisite geographical investigations , nor must he turn with disgust from the dry arrangements of chronology .. —" But above all , for tlie precept cannot be too frequently or too anxiously inculcated , Jet him make historical facts
the su bjects of serious meditation . Let him consider them as exhibiting a picture of human life , and as tending to refine the moral sense , and to correct the evil passions of men , by exhibiting , in striking points of view , the dignity of virtue and the deformity of vice . "
As a natural appendix to Mr . S . ' s papers , Geography and Chronology , the two eyes of history , as they have been aptly termed , are briefly treated of by Mr . Joyce . On ancient geography , indeed , as being less frequently introduced into a course of scholastic
education , there is a pretty full and comprehensive treatise ; at the conclusion of which reference is made to the works of D'Anville , Butler and
Adam , and for . Scripture Geography to Reland , Wells and Carpenter . He has omitted Cellarius , De Xisle , an $ in our own language , Holland , Hales , and the editor of Calmet . On Modern of
Geograph y * the outline ^ winch at least he presumes his youthful reader to have learned , he contents himself with referring to the principal elementary books * the delineations , of Aikjn , ( lie might have added those of Scotland and Ireland , the latter by Mr . Hincks , of Fermor , ) the large work of Pinkerton , and with
recommending the perusal of voyages and travels . He concludes with a chapter on the History of Geographical Science , chiefly taken from Blair . The chapters on Chronology contain a brief explanation of Sir Isaac
$ Jewton ' 8 method of settling the an ctent chronology , by generations , by the procession of the equinoxes , and by eclipses . The author then proceeds to describe the , divisions of tinie intp . days , months , years and cycles ; the difference between the Julian antj
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Gregorian year ; the several epochas or eras , from which subsequent events have been reckoned \ gives an abridgment of Greg ' s Memoria Technica , of which Dr ; Priestley says , " that all persons : of a liberal education are unwarrantable who will not take the
small pains that is necessary to make themselves masters of it , or who think any thing mean or unworthy of their notice , which is so useful and convenient ; " presents his readers with a review of the principal chronological
works and tables—Playfair | s , which he considers as a treasury of chronological knowledge , more ample and judicious than any that has yet appeared ?— Blair ' s tables , which are so constructed a * to save the reader the
trouble of reducing the different computations of any event , by different eras , to one an other- ^ Ty tier ' s , in his Elements of General History-r—Fresiioy ' s * He has « omitted to mention
Priestley ' s Charts of History and Biography . He concludes with a brief notice of Coins and Medals , and their use in settling points of history , and with a warm recommendation of
Pinkerton on Medals ¦;* : and also of Antiquities , including all testimonies w ; hi < jh have come down to us illustrative of partiqular or general history , whether manuscripts , inscriptions , rudje stones ^ remains of eirchiteicture or sculpture * &c . with the principal authors who
treat of them , ( in the list of whoni Bingley should be Bingham , and Neineccius , Heineccius ) . The subject of Histojry is very pr <^ perly concluded ,. in a work intendedfor young Englishmen , with an historical view of the British constitution . Thisi , which is fcpm the pen of Mr . Shepherd ,
may not perhaps be quite to the taste of those who maintain its original purity and perfection On the contrary , it is Mr . S ^ Sropinioq , that we shall form a very erroneous judgment , if we imaging the glorious fabric to have been organised centuries ago , or tp have tenat once erected in ail its just
, ., _ , — ' * We beg * leave to notice here , once for all , ani impropriety which very often occurs throughout this work , and indeed is ' cireeping info general use , " we recommend the leader to study , V &c- instead of " we recotuaietid it ' to the reader to sti ^ dy ^ Sec . or , u we ^ commend to the reader the rtuxty o ^' &o .
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££ 0 Review . —^ Shepherd , « Joyce and \ Carpenier s SifstematicEducaiim ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 520, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/48/
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