Sylvia, for all the pangs you see, How great soc'er your rigours arc, EPIGRAMS. With folded hands and lifted eyes, When, with a look of brightened smiles, On the Chevalier D'Eon. Spinster, and minister, knight and dame, D'Eon, in male and female fame, By turns has borne the belle. Adroit to act on either plan, Smile nymph, or hero vapour; Genius, meanwhile, alert, though strange, Preserves its equal claim; 'Tis mere dexterity of change, And proves D'Eon still the same. CLERMONT SEMINARY. JOHN THOMAS AND CHARLES CARRE, AND JOHN SANDERSON, PROFESSORS. TERMS: For lodging, boarding, washing, fire, candles and tuition, $300 per annnm, payable quarterly in advance; each student pays $10 entrance money. A boy to be admitted must at least, know how to read, and his age not exceeding twelve years. No admission for students coming from other universities in the United Sates. An additional charge is made for necessary books, paper, quills and ink. Dancing and drawing are taught by the most eminent masters, at an additional charge of $5 entrance and $10 per quarter. Premiums given for encouragement will also be charged to the parents. Any of the parents who may wish their son's clothes to be mended, will pay an extra charge of one dollar and half per quarter. Every student must be furnished with a cot-bed, a matrass, three pair of sheets, a pillow and a sufficient number of blankets for the cold nights of winter; he must be provided with eight shirts and a dessert spoon. All these articles to be marked with his name. As cleanliness and neatness are conducive to health; ánd bave a great influence on the mind; our pupils change their linen three times a week, winter and summer. In order to encourage this important part of education, a bath house has been erected with a very large bathing tub, in which half a dozen boys may bathe, at a time, in cold water, during the summer season, and wash themselves during the winter. The domestic arrangement, for an efficient and decent accommodation of so numerous, and care-requiring family, is with us an object of primary concern; in our minds it is no small part of education bestowed on children, to cultivate a taste and relish for decorum, and politeness and propriety of manners. We have therefore placed our family under a superintendance, calculated as much as possible to infuse these principles in the minds of our pupils; and at the same time to alleviate the solici tude of parents, with regard to the domestic treatment of their delicate and beloved offspring. It is well known that diet has a great power on the mind; too rich it tends to relax the digestive faculty; to occasion indigestions, and of course to disturb and confuse the sensitive system. As there exist a close relation in our constitution, between the stomach and the brain, a high seasoned diet is productive of confused ideas, and renders the student, under this predicament, thoroughly incapable of learning. It has another tendency not less to be dreaded in youth; for it, ultimately, lays the foundation of inflammatory diseases of all kinds. Nature, in a youth well organized, wants no stimulus of any kind; on the contrary, and especially in summer, when the heat exalts the bile to the highest degree, and stimulates the blood to inflammation, a cooling and diluting diet is best calculated to diminish or entirely to prevent an effect so dreadful. We have, in consequence of this natural reflection, placed our table under wholesome regulations. The best meat of various kinds, roasted, broiled or boiled, with the best bread the town can afford, and vegetables in their perfection, form the meals of every day in the summer season, fruits in full maturity, are by no means spared. We have the satisfaction, by this systematic order, to have improved the constitution of our pupils, as well as to have formed them to better manners, and of course, to more correct morals. The habit of good health gives them a cheerful and florid appearance, which have not failed to attract the observation of visitors. To this we ascribe, that for four years and a half our numerous family has experienced no disorder of any consequence. And we have been so far fortunate, as to have met with no accident whatever. The regulations concerning discipline, without which, education of any kind cannot be pursued, are comprised in a small code, which one of the students reads every morning, at the opening of the school, after having read a chapter of the Holy Bible. A copy of these regulations will be delivered, together with this prospectus, to parents or guardians, who may wish to place their sons or wards under our care. The purpose of these regulations, is to impress on the minds of our pupils a true sense of their duty; to excite and fix in their tender hearts, principles of honour, liberality, generosity and justice. They are also calculated, to establish a constant uniformity, both in regard to rewards and punishments, so as to leave no room for arbitrariness, caprice and partiality on the part of the teachers. We consider a just and impartial discipline as the most important part of education; for from a steady, firm, but just discipline, in a siminary of learning, result industry, honest emulation, true learning, habits of study, reflection and of reasoning. It implants in the heart of youth permanent principles of liberal sentiments, justice and virtue. It prepares the mind to discriminate right from wrong; to pursue the former with fortitude and perseverance, which only leads to happiness in this sublunanary world. In order to rouse the minds of our pupils to a noble emulation, and create, among them, an honest ambition, they are monthly examined. Those who prove industrious and evince improvement in their studies, manners and conduct, are invited to a handsome entertainment, in which nothing is spared to make it please both the eye and palate. But on the contrary, those who make no exertion, continue at their studies as usual, without enjoying the feast of merit. The vacations of the seminary last one month, and begin on the first of September; the scholars must return to the seminary on the first of October following. Previous to the vacations, and on the latter end of August, a public examination takes place. Our scholars, then, undergo a bona fide examination; then they appear in their true and natural state both of mind and body: there is no quackery, no imposition, and no deception. No one of our pupils is made to learn particular pieces of prose or poetry, to recite, to translate or rehearse the same pieces with a great and irreparable loss of time, during three months before, that he may shine a moment like a meteor in darkness. To form and develop the understanding of our pupils is our main object. We threfore avoid, by all means in our power, planting in their hearts an insolent pride, the bane of all virtues. We are sensible that repeated examples of duplicity must prove the ruin of the morals of youth; we think therefore that to form them to virtuc, examples of candour, probity and honour, should constantly be exhibited before them. According to our pinciples, the pupils receive no more preparation for their public examination, than what they receive every day of the year, for the reciting of their daily lessons. It is a matter of fact, that the operations and exertions of the mind tend to increase the sensitive system, whilst they weaken the muscular strength of the body. To prevent this natural effect of mental application, and to combine together both the development of the understanding and the strength of the body, our scholars take, in their recreations, as much exercise as they please. When the weather permits it is taken in open air, but within the bounds of the seminary, or under the spacious piazza of the house, in case of bad weather. In the spring, each of them is allotted a portion of ground for a garden, in which every one spends the most of his time allowed for diversion. And in this useful and instructive labour, they generally display a great deal of ingenuity, taste and industry. Hippocrates, and other eminent physicians after him, have observed that Nature has divided the course of life, in man, into critical periods, which according to the constitution of the body, and prudence in the diet, are more or less dangerous. They generally agree, in their observations, on the immediate influence, these periods, which they call climacteric, have on the mental faculties. In some instances they metamorphose a blockhead into a genius; and a genius into a block-head —At seven, and after the second teething, life is confirmed and memory rous. ed into action. It is then the time to lay up a store of ideas and words, and to prepare materials for a maturer age. Languages are therefore most adapted to that age until fourteen. It is about that time of life that the second period or revolution takes place. Every judicious observer of Nature will acknowledge, that it is at that age, the horizon of thought grows wider: that the objects, which laid before in the memory, as an indigesta moles, are classified and put into their natural order. Then the heart opens to sweet and tender sentiments; nature appears then clothed with all her splendor and majesty, and seems, smiling all around, to invite youth to the pure and delightful en |