Collections from American Literature. 



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tre ecrivain, honneur de la France,' and 

 quotes t'roiii liiin the words, ' Toutes ve- 

 fites ne sont pus bonnes a dire. 



EDUCATION. 



Tlie Romans usually selected from 

 amoiipst tliejr slaves the preceptor of 



[Sept. 1, 



weakness, ought the care of developing 

 and perfecting its powers be regarded a» 

 a low and disgraceful cmitloymcnt. 

 Let us throw the mantie of ridicule over 

 tlie prolessiou of a schoolmaster as we' 

 may, it is not the less certain, that the 

 tlieir children. For a long time great greater pajt of governments would not 

 attention was paid to education ; but stand in need of so many laws to reform 

 neglect follows close on the heels of mankind, if they had taken the precau- 



hixiiry. Their studies were neglected 

 or debased, because they did not lead to 

 the first offices in the state. They va- 

 lued a tutor at a less price than a slave ; 

 the beautiful expression of a philosopher 

 on tliis point deserves to be recorded. 

 He demanded one thousand drachms 

 for the instruction of a young man. " It- 

 is too much (replied the father), it would 

 not cost me more to buy a slave." " You 

 are right, sir; and by that means you 

 •will have two slaves for your money — 

 your son, and the one you purchase." 



A i)arent is extremely fortunate when 

 he finds a preceptor, at once the friend 

 of virtue and the Muses, willing to un- 

 dertake the charge of a child's educa- 

 tion, and feeling all the sentiments of a 

 tender father ; nothing is more rare than 

 a master of this description. There are, 

 undoubtedly, persons in the world who 

 would be excellent preceptors; but, be- 

 ing sensible men, and knowing the value 

 of liberty, they cannot bring themselves 

 to sacrifice it without a consideration 



tion of forming the manners of children in 

 paying more attention to their education. 



PROTESTANT PERSECUTION. 



Matt iitfMis Hammond, aralrorum faber 

 ex vico Hetherset, tribus miliaribus a 

 Norwico distante, reus factus coram 

 C) iseopo Norwicensi, accusatus, quoct^ 

 ncRaveratChristum salvatorem nostrum. 

 Com|iareiiti in judieio objectum est, 

 quod seqncntcs proposiliones haprelioas, 

 publicasset, nempe quod Novum Testa- 

 mcntum et Evangclinm Chiisti pur* 

 stuUitia erat, inventum humanum, ct 

 mcra fabula. lusupcr quod Christus 

 non est Dcus, nee saivator mundi, sed: 

 merus homo, et quod omncs qui ilium 

 colunt sunt idololatrae abominandi. Item,, 

 quod Christus non a morte resurrexit, 

 nequc in coelum ascensit. Propter qua* 

 haereses condemnatus est in cousisto- 

 rio, episcopo senlcntiam pronunciante, 

 13 die Aprilis 15<9, et deindc traditus^ 

 vicecomiti Norwicensi. Et quia verba 

 blasphemiae non recitamla locutus 

 fuerat, condemnatus est a judice N'or- 



sufficient to tempt them, viz. a little for- wiceusi Windamo, et praetore Nor- 



tune and much respect. Generally they vvicensi Roberto Wood, ut ei amputa- . 



neither find the one nor the other ; their rentur auriculae, quod factum est in fore 



profession is held in contempt ; but we Norwicensi, 13 Mali, et postca 12 ejus- 



may ask, is that contempt well founded? dem niensis viviconiburium passus est, 



What! because infancy is a state of in fossa castelli Norwicensis. 



COLLECTIONS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE. 



ing occasional masses of granite and 

 other primitive rocks. In attempting 

 to give some account of these strata, the 

 following order will be pursued : — 



I. Of the linmstone formation. 



II. Of the alluvial formatimi. 



III. Of the argillaceous fvrmatien, or 



EXTRACTS /som a NATURAL and .STA- 

 TISTICAL VIEW or PICTURE of CIN- 

 CINNATI and the MIAMI COUNTRY, on 

 the OHIO; by DANIEL DRAKE, M.D. 

 GEOLOGY, 



IF a geologist, at Cincinnati, ascend 

 from the surface of the Ohio, when 



low, to the top of an adjoining liill, he the stratum of loam and soil. 



observes, first, a region of tabular lime- IV. Of tlu primitive masses. 



stone and argillaceous slate; then a tract I. The calcareous or limestone re- 



of alluvion or bottom, composed cliiefly gion under examination is the largest, 



of loam and clay, succeeded by a tract perhaps, in the known world. Parallel 



of the same kind, but more elevated, to the meridian, it extends, with few iu- 



apparently more ancient, and consisting terruptions, but with considerable varia- 



principally of gravel and sand ; be then tions of character, from the shores of 



arrives at the same kind of ca'careous lake Erie to the southern part of the 



strata exhibited by the bed of the river, state of Tenessee, and probably to the 



•which he sees surmounted by a stratum cape of East Florida; as Mr. Ellicott 



of ioam, covered witli soil, and support- infornis us that the rocks of the cele- 



biate^ 



