by fuch an institution. Convincing eloquence is infinitely more serviceable to its poffeffor than the moft florid harangue, or the most pathetic tones that can be imagined; and the man who is thoroughly convinced himself, who understands his fubject, and the language he speaks in, will be more apt to filence oppofition, than he who ftudies the force of his periods, and fills our ears with founds, while our minds are deftitute of conviction.

It was reckoned the fault of the orators at the decline of the Roman empire, when they had been long inftructed by rhetoricians, that their periods were fo harmonious, that they could be fung as well as fpoken. What a ridiculous figure must one of these gentlemen cut, thus measuring syllables, and weighing words, when he should plead the cause of his client! Two architects were once candidates for the building a certain temple at Athens. The first harangued the crowd very learnedly upon the different orders of architecture, and fhowed them in what manner the temple fhould be built; the other, who got up after him, only observed, that what his brother had spoken, he could do: and thus he at once gained his cause.

To teach men to be orators, is little lefs than to teach them to be poets; and, for my part, I should· have too great a regard for my child, to wish him a minor only in a bookfeller's fhop.

Another paffion which the present age is apt to run into, is to make children learn all things; the languages, the sciences, mufic, the exercises, and painting. Thus the child foon becomes a Talker in all,

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but a Master in none. He thus acquire fondnefs for every thing; and only sh rance, when he attempts to exhibit h

As I deliver my thoughts witho connection, fo the reader must not b find me once more addreffing schoolm prefent method of teaching the learne which is commonly by literal tranflatio afk fuch, if they were to travel a journ thofe parts of the road in which the greatest difficulties would not be the n remembered? Boys who, if I may cont lufion, gallop through one of the ancie affistance of a translation, can have but acquaintance either with the author or h It is by the exercise of the mind alone, guage is learned; but a literal tranfla oppofite page, leaves no exercise for the all. The boy will not be at the fatigue bering, when his doubts are at once fat glance of the eye; whereas, were every fought from a dictionary, the learner wou to remember them to fave himself the looking out for the future.

To continue in the fame pedantic ftra the various grammars now taught in th about town, I would recommend only the mon one I have forgot whether Lilly emendation of him. The others may be ments; but fuch improvements feem to mere grammatical niceties, no way influer learner, but perhaps loading him with tri

tilties, which, at a proper age, he must be at fome pains to forget..

Whatever pains a mafter may take to make the learning of the languages agreeable to his pupil, he may dedend upon it, it will be at first extremely unpleafant. The rudiments of every language, therefore, must be given as a taik, not as an amusement. Attempting to deceive children into inftruction of this kind, is only deceiving ourfelves: and I know no paffion capable of conquering a child's natural laziness, but fear. Solomon has said it before me; nor is there any more certain, though perhaps more disagreeable truth, than the proverb in verfe, too well known to repeat on the prefent occafion. It is very probable that parents are told of fome mafters who never ufe the rod, ad confequently are thought the propereft inftructorsfor their children; but, tho' tenderness is a requifite quality in an intructor, yet there is too often the trueft tenderness in well-timed correction.

Some have juftly observed, that all paffion hould be banished on this terrible occafion; but I know not how, there is a frailty attending human nature, that few mafters are able to keep their temper whilft they correct. I knew a good-natured man, who was fenfible of his own weakness in this refpect, and confequently had recourfe to the following expedient to prevent his paffions from being engaged, yet at the fame time adminifter juftice with impartiality. whenever any of his pupils committed a fault, he fummoned a jury of his peers, I mean of the boys of his own or the next claffes to him; his accufers ftood..

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ftood forth; he had liberty of pleadi defence, and one or two more had pleading against him: when found jury, he was configned to the footman in the house, and who had previous nifh, but with lenity. By this mean took off the odium of punishment fr and the footman, between whom and t could not be even the flighteft intimacy in fuch a light as to be fhunned by c the school..

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Popular Glory. Story of a Chinese N alehoufe-keeper near Iflington long lived at the fign of the Fr the commencement of the laft war w pulled down his old fign, and put up Queen of Hungary. Under the influenc face and golden fceptre, he continued till fhe was no longer the favourite of 1 ers: he changed her, therefore, fome tim the King of Pruffia, who may probably ged, in turn, for the next great man th up for vulgar admiration.

Our publican, in this, imitates the gre who deal out their figures, one after the ot gazing crowd. When we have fufficiently at one, it is taken in, and another exhib room, which feldom holds its station long mob are ever pleased with variety.

I must own I have fuch an indifferent opinion of the vulgar, that I am ever led to fufpect that merit which raises their shout; at least I am certain to find thofe great, and fometimes good men, who find fatiffaction in fuch acclamations, made worse by it; and history has too frequently taught me, that the head which has this day grown giddy with the roar of the million, has, the very next, been fixed upon a pole.

As Alexander VI. was entering a little town in

the neighbourhood of Rome, which had been just evacuated by the enemy, he perceived the townsmen bufy in the market-place, in pulling down from a gibbet a figure which had been defigned to reprefent himself. There were fome also knocking down a neighbouring ftatue of one of the Orfini family, with whom he was at war, in order to put Alexander's effigy in its place. It is poffible a man who knew lefs of the world would have condemned the adulation of those barefaced flatterers; but Alexander feemed pleased at their zeal, and, turning to Borgia his fon, faid with a fmile, Vides, mi fili, quam leve difcrimen patibulum inter et ftatuam. "You fee, my son, the small difference between a gibbet and a ftatue." If the great could be taught any leffon, this might ferve to teach them upon how weak a 'foundation their glory ftands; for, as popular applaufe is excited bywhat feems like merit, it asquickly condemns what has only the appearance of guilt.

Popular glory is a perfect coquet; her lovers muft toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps, at last, be jilted for their pains. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense;

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