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cake them in perfedly, and better than many Pro- 

 feffors of eloquence. It is the tone of foul of the 

 perfon who liftens, which gives the comprehenfion 

 of the language of him who fpeaks. A projeét was 

 once formed, 1 think under Louis X\V. of building 

 a city, in which no language but Latin was to 

 iiave been fpoken. This muft have inconceivably 

 facilitated the ftudy of that tongue ; but the Uni- 

 verfity, undoubtedly, would not have found it's 

 account in it. Whatever may be in this, I am 

 well affured, that two years, at moft, are fufficienc 

 for the children of the National School, to learn 

 the Latin by practice, efpecially if, in the leflures 

 which they attended, extracts were given from the 

 lives of great men, French and Roman, written 

 in good Latin, and afterwards well explained. 



In the third period of Education, nearly about 

 the age when the paffions begin to take flight, I 

 would flievv, to ingenuous youth, the pure and 

 gentle language of them, in the Eclogues arid 

 Georgics of Firgil; the philofophy of them, in 

 feme of the Odes of Horace ; and pidiures of their 

 corruption, taken from Tacitus and Sueloniîis. I 

 would finifh the painting of the hideous excefTcs . 

 into which they plunge Mankind, by exhibiting 

 paiTages from fome Hiftorian of the Lower Em- 

 pire. I would make them rcm^irk how talents,. 



z 4 taile. 



