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I saat briefly confider, firft, what kind of knowledge 
men intended for the fuperior walks of life ought to poflefs ; 
and fecondly, what means ought to be employed for facili- 
tating the communication of this. knowledge. 
Tue education of the divine, the lawyer, the phyfician, the 
painter, the mufician, the naval and military officer, the 
merchant, the ftatefman, and the elegant fcholar, ought to 
branch from one common trunk, 
STRIcT grammatical accuracy in the ufe of the Englifh 
language, and a familiar acquaintance with the Latin and 
French fhould be confidered as indifpenfable ground-werks for 
whatever fuperftructure is afterwards to be erected. 
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Some modern writers, and thofe too of repute, have thought 
proper to decry the ftudy of the dead languages as a ufelefs 
tax upon the memory; but thefe gentlemen have over-rated 
the difficulty of acquiring a competent knowledge of thefe 
tongues; they have omitted to confider how many Englith, 
efpecially technical words, {pring from the Grecian fount; and 
above all they have forgotten how univerfally the Latin 
tongue pervades every department of literature; fo that Tul- 
ly’s affertion is as true at this day, over all the realms of 
polifhed fociety, as it was originally in the city of Rome— 
“ Non tam preclarum effe {cire Latine, quam turpe nefcire.” 
A GENERAL knowledge of ancient and modern hiftory, of 
the nature of the conftitntion under which we live, and of 
the 
