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the beft fyflem of liberal and literary inftnidion, adapted 

 to the genius of the government, and befl: calculated to 

 promote the general welfare of the Urtited States. 



On the fifteenth of December 1797, the fociety, agreea- 

 bly to fpecial appointment, proceeded to confider the 

 feveral EfTays on Education, which had been prefented. 

 The analyfes of thcfe EfTays were read, when it was 

 agreed to take the queftion in this manner on each per- 

 formance, viz. " Is this the beft fyflem of liberal Edu- 

 cation and literary Inftrudlion, adapted to the genius of 

 the government, and beft calculated to promote the ge- 

 neral welfare, of the United States ?" 



Whereupon it appeared to the fociety that two of 

 thefe Eifays, I. An EfTay with this motto, " In Met'il 

 defccndat yudicis otires" EIorace. II. An Eflay with 

 this motto, " I call a complete and generous Education that 

 which Jits a man to perform jujily, jMfully and magnani- 

 moujly, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and 

 war" Milton ; pofleifed a fuperior degree of merit, and 

 were worthy of publication. The premium was in con- 

 fequence adjudged to be equally divided between the 

 authors of thefe two Eifays. 



The Prefident then opened the fealed letters which ac- 

 companied thefe performances, when it appeared that the 

 Reverend Samuel Knox, A. M. of Bladenfburg, in 

 Maryland, was author of the firft, and Samuel Har- 

 rison Smith, A. M. of Philadelphia, was author of 

 the fecond Eflay. 



The fociety then diredled the publication of the two 

 EfTays. 



Mr. I. H. De MAGELLAN, of london, 



Having made a donation, to the fociety, of two hun- 

 dred guineas^ to be vefled in a permanent fund; that the 



intereft 



