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the only object.of the teacher was to convey to the student 
the knowledge of the succession of historical facts. In the 
second, the principle of chronological arrangement was :alto- 
gether disregarded: the events of history were considered not 
as a branch of knowledge in themselves, but as a ground. work 
for the conclusions of science; and the great object of the 
teacher was to convey to the students the knowledge of 
the general puncinles of public law and of political philose- . 
phy. , 
In neither of Saniss systems did Mr Tyrrrr find the utilities 
which it was his ambition to derive from the subject of his lec- 
tures. The first appeared to him only a barren detail of chrono- 
logical events, in which nothing more was conveyed than the 
mere knowledge of the succession of these events ; and all that 
is included under the name of the Philosophy of Fass was 11e- 
cessarily omitted. In the second, he feared that too wide a field 
was opened to the ambitious speculations of the teacher, and 
that while the attention of the student was liable to be occu- 
pied by hasty or by unfounded theories, the interest of his- 
torical narration was necessarily lost, and all the moral instruc- 
tions of history neglected. 
» The system which Mr Tyrter finally ncléipted for his own 
course of lectures, was one which combined the advantages 
of both these systems, and was very happily adapted, both to 
maintain the interest and to consult the instruction of the stu- 
dent. In surveying with an attentive eye, the ancient history 
of the world, he observed, (to use his own words,) that it was 
distinguished, in every age, by one prominent feature; Thai 
one nation or empire was successively predominant, to whom all 
the rest bore as it were an under-part, and to whose history, we 
Jind that the principal events in the annals of other nations may 
be referred from some natural connection. In this remarkable 
Vox, VIII. P. II. 3X feature 
