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Edue T 968.02.24 5

ril. 25.

1857. April.

Edne T 1028,02

Gist of

Mrs. the

nathaniel A. Haven. jr.

of Portsmouth. M. H.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE want of a fyftem of Rhetoric upon

a concise plan and at an easy price will, it is prefumed, render this little Volume acceptable to the public. To collect knowledge, which is fcattered over a wide extent, into a fmall compafs; if it has not the merit of originality, has at least the advantage of being ufeful. Many, who are terrified at the idea of travelling over a ponderous volume in fearch of information, will yet set out on a fhort journey in pursuit of science with alacrity and profit. Those, for whom the following Effays are principally intended, will derive peculiar benefit from the brevity, with which they are conveyed. To youth, who are engaged in the rudiments of learning; whofe time and attention must be occupied by a variety of fubjects; every branch of science

fhould be rendered as concife, as poffible. Hence the attention is not fatigued, nor the memory overloaded.

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That a knowledge of Rhetoric forms a very material of the education of a polite fcholar muft be univerfally allowed. Any attempt therefore, however imperfect,. to make fo useful an art more generally known, has claim to that praife, which is the reward of good intention. With this the Editor will be fufficiently fatisfied; fince being ferviceable to others is the most agreeable method of becoming contented. with ourselves.

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