But not inferior to the Classics, and by some of the most 

 able writers on Instruction deemed of greater moment in an 

 education available to general purposes, is a comprehensive 

 and practical knowledge of Modern Languages. At a period 

 when the intercourse between the nations of Europe has 

 augmented to an astonishing degree, and when the extraor- 

 dinary improvements in Mechanics promise to render still 

 more rapid the communications between distant countries, 

 and consequently to increase Commerce, the love of Travel, 

 and the knowledge of Foreign Literature and Science, a com- 

 petent acquaintance with more than one continental language 

 is indispensable to persons aspiring to a liberal education. 

 Besides the instruction given in the French and Italian lan- 

 guages, a more than usual attention is paid to the cultivation 

 of the German, which contains works of the rarest merit in 

 every department of Science and Literature. In historical and 

 philological works, of every description, the Germans have 

 excelled all other nations, and the labours of a Niebuhr, 

 Wachsmuth, and Heeren, in Classic investigations, and of 

 a Klaproth, Van Hammer, and Schlegel in Oriental Literature, 

 (not to dwell on the distinguished merits of a Klopstock, 

 Lessing, Winkelman, Wieland, Burger, Goethe, Johannes 

 Muller, Herder, and Schiller,) have given a nev/ impetus 

 to these pursuits at our Universities, and thus rendered 

 absolutely requisite a knowledge of the German to the suc- 

 cessful study, not merely of the Greek and Roman writers, 

 but of every other branch of human learning. The Principal of 

 this Establishment having taken a degree at a German Uni- 

 versity, and travelled much, is enabled to give and super- 

 intend instruction in these departments of education, with 

 no inconsiderable advantage to his Pupils. 



To an extensive study of ancient and modem languages, 

 that of History, Chronology, and Geography is added. The 

 dry and unmteresting mode in which these subjects are 



