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where . He told me he did , and at Mi-Ian .. " And why not here ? " " Because ( said his father , who came with him ) we have no professors . " "No ! " said I ; " surely it nearly concerns you , who are fathers , " ( and very opportunely , several of the company were , ) " that your sons should receive their education here , rather than any where else . For where
can they be placed more agreeably than in their own country , or instructed with more safety and less expense than at home , and uuder the eye of their parents ? Upon what very easy terms might you , by a general contribution , procure proper masters , if you would only apply towards the raising a salary for them , the extraordinary expense you
sustain for your sons' journeys , lodgings , and for whatever else you pay in consequence of their being educated at a distance from home ; as pay you must for every article of every kind . Though I have no children myself , yet I shall willingly contribute to a design so beneficial to my native country , which I consider as my child or my parent ; and there *
fore I will advance a third part of any sum you shall think proper to raise for this purpose . I would take upon myself the whole expense , were I not apprehensive that my benefactions might hereafter be abused and perverted to private ends ; which I have observed to be the case iu several places where public foundatious of this nature have been
established . * ' 1 he single mean to prevent this mischief is to have the choice of the professors entirely in the breast of the parents ; who will be so much the more careful whom they elect , as they will be obliged to share the expense of thejr stipend . For though they may be negligent in disposing of another ' s bounty , they will certainly be ^ cautious how they apply their own , and will see that noue but those who deserve it shall
receive my money , when they must at the same time receive theirs too . Let my example then encourage you to unite heartily , in this useful design ; and be assured , the gt eate * the sum my proportion shall amount fc ^ , the more agreeable it will be to me . You can undertake nothing that will be more advantageous to your children , nor more acceptable to your country . Your sons will by these means receive their education where
* It can hardly be suspected that any thing of the kind ever occurred in this country .
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they received their birth , and be accustomed from their infancy to inhabit and affect their native soil . May you be able to procure professors of such distinguished abilities , that the neighbouring towns shall be glad to draw . their learning from hence ; and as you now send your children to foreigners for education , may foreigners in their tu n * flock hither for their education !"
I thought proper thus to lay open to you the principle upon which this scheme turns , that you might be the more sensible how agreeable it will be to me , if you undertake the office I request , f entreat you , therefore , with all the earnestness a matter of so much importance deserves , to look out , among the great number of men of letters which the
reputation of your genius brings to you , proper persous to whom we may apply for this purpose ; but without entering into any agreement with them on my part ; for 1 would leave it entirely free to the parents to judge and choose as
they shall see proper . All the share V pretend to claim is , that of contributing my assistance aud my money . If , therefore , any one shall be found who thinkshimself qualified for the office , he may repair thither ; but without relying upon any thing but his merits . Farewell . *
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Prophecies in the Revelation . To the Editor . Sir , Not being desirous of trespassing on your pages unnecessarily , I shall only propose a short query or two on a particular passage of prophecy , if such a subject were permitted in the New Series . I would ask , Does not the twelfth chapter of Revelation continue in detail
the subject of the eleventh ? And does it not relate to the same circumstance of time and place , as well as persons , mentioned by Daniel xii . 1 , and more especially by Jude , in his Epistle , ver . 9 ? The same symbols are used by John and J pde , and I think both refer to the same < yent . Should this deserve the notice of , any of your correspondents , it would , oblige
PHILALF / rHES . * We do not know why the wonl " Studies" has been , translated " to study rhetoric . * ' The original does not seem to imply here any such limitation , but speaks of studies and learning in general .
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196 Occasional Correspondence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/52/
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