STUDY XI^. J33 



Pafcal, and the other Colin Boileau. Cvlin implies 

 aothing farcaftic, faid his father. That one word 

 infufed the fpirit of farcafm into him. The auda- 

 cious villainy 0Ï James Clement, took it's birth, 

 perhaps, from fome jeft that pafled upon his 

 name. 



Government, therefore, ought to interpofe in 

 the bufinefs of giving names to children, as they 

 have an influence fo tremendous on the charaders 

 of the citizens. I could vvifli, likewife, that to 

 their baptifmal name might be added a furname of 

 fome family, rendered illuftrious by virtue, as the 

 Romans did ; this fpecies of adoption would at-, 

 tach the little to the great, and the great to the 

 little. There were, at Rome, Scipios without num- 

 ber, in Plebeian families. Wc might revive, in 

 like manner, among our commonalty, the names 

 of our illuftrious families, fuch as the Fenelons, 

 the CaiinatSy the Montav/iers, and the like. 



I would not make ufe, in this fchool, of noify 

 bells, to announce the different exercifes, but of 

 the found of flutes, of hautboys, and of bag-pipes. 

 Every thing they learned (hould be verfified, and 

 fet to' mufic. The influence of thefe two arts 

 united is beyond all conception. I fliall produce 

 fome examples of it, taken from the Legiflation of 

 A People, whofe police was the beft, perhaps, in 



the 



