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Poems for the Vale at Bath Eafton, 315 CAGGIO di Eglogbe Militari, &c. 306 POETICAL Amusements at a Villa near J SAGGIo Orittografico, &c. 310 Epiftle to Dr. Robertson, 234 SAUSSURL, M. de, his Travels in the 378 POLYGAMY. See HILL. SENTIMENTAL Excursions to Wind. Pbenomenes Electriques, &c. 381 SERMON in French on Decency in exter- 240 Serm. at Birmingham, 475 - Collection of, from the most by Hurd, 117 -, Single, 320, 395, 477 182 SERVANTS. See APPEALS. 307 78 Shaw's Inquiry into the Authenticity of PRUSSIA, King of, his Art of War, a fian's Poems, PULTNLY'S View of the Writings of SIGAUD de la Fond, M. his view of D Aspi's Essay on Oil Painting, 90 SMALL-Pox. See BLACK Tabby in Elyfium, 236 SMITH's Philosoph. Inquiries, Part IIT. 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Numerous, however, as have been the authors who have written on this enteresting topic, it is still far from being exhaufted ; as, indeed, is evident from the present performance, in which much is to be met with that is well worthy of remark and observation. If Mr. K. amuse us not by fingularity of opinion, he, at least, gratifes us by his good sense, and the juftness of his sentiments. Novelty, indeed, is not be expected from a Writer on Education who means not to recommend speculation, but practice; not to innovate, but to restore: his design, in fhørt, is to speak in favour of that ancient system of education which consists in a classical discipline, and which has produced in our nation many ornaments of human nature.' By classical discia pline is meant, we presume, the discipline which prevails in puba lic schools. In discussing the question, whether we should prefer public or private education, he is a warm advocate for the former. • From the time of Quintilian to the present day, it has remained a doubt, whether public or private education is the more conducive to valuable improvement. Quintilian approved of public education, and has supported his opinion, as indeed he always does, with reasons which carry with them irrelittible convidion. From the arguments Vol. LÁV. which which he has used, and from the di&tates of observation, I am feď nde only to prefer public, but entirely to disapprove private education, unless under the particular circumstances which I fall presently enu. merate. • Though, upon the whole, I prefer the education of schools, yet I know that much licentiousness has often been found in them. The prevailing manners of the age, and of the world at large, are apt to infinuate themselves into those seminaries of learning, which, by their feclufion from the world, migbe be supposed to be exempted from its corruptions. The scholars bring the infection from home; and per. haps the masters theinselves at length acquire a tinge from the predominant colour of the times. From whatever cause it proceeds, it is certain that schools often degenerate with the community, and con. tribuce greatly to increase, by diffufing, at the most sufceptible periods of life, the general depravity. The old scholastic discipline re[axes, habits of idleness and intemperance are contracted, and the fcholar often comes from them with the acquifition of effrontery alone to compensate for his ignorance. When I recommend public schools, therefore, I must be understood to mean places of education where the intention of the founder is not quite forgotten, and where a degree of the more practical part of the original discipline is still retained. Such, I truft, may be found; and such will increase in number, when the general diffipation, which, it is confeffed, has remarkably prevailed of late, fhall be corrected, by public distress, or by some other dispenfation of Providence. .. The danger which the morals are said to incur in schools, is a weighty objection. I most cordially agree with Quintilian, and with other writers on this subject, that it is an ill exchange to give up innocence for learning. But, perhaps, it is not true, that in a well-disciplined school (and it is only such an one which I recommend), there is more danger of a corruption of morals than at home. I am not unacquainted with the early propensity of the human heart to vice, and I am well aware that boys contribute greatly to each others corrup tion. But I know, that the pupil who is kept at home cannot be at all hours under the immediate eye of his parent or his instructor; it muft happen, by chance, necessity, or neglect, that he will often as. fociate with menial servants, from whose example, especially in great and opulent families, he will not only learn meanness, but vice. But fupposing him to be restrained from fuch communication, the examples he will see in the world, and the temptations he will meet with in an intercourse with various company at an early age, will affect his heart, and cause it to beat with impatience for his emancipation from that retraint which muft be taken off at the approach of manbood. Then will his paffions break forth with additional violence, as the waters of a fream which have been long confined. In the courfe of my own experience, I have known young men nearly rained at the university, who attributed their wrong conduct to the immoderate reftraint of a domestic education. The fweets of liberty never before tasted, and the allurements of vice never before with tood, become toe powerful for registance at an age when the passions are all arong, rcason immature, and experience entirely deficient. • After |