130 Remarks on Dr. Enfield’s Institutes 
tical application, —these names, we say, scarcely 
in a work which embraces nearly the whole extent of the 
“philosophical studies in our systems of liberal education. — 
We are aware that the best selection of topics for such a 
a work must often be a delicate task ; and that there will be 
room for differences of taste and opinion concerning it. Not 
y thing that is highly valuable will on this account be 
admissible. Many of those details which are of high 
importance in their applications to practice may possess 
-of that elegance which would attract the attention of 
ral scholar; and many investigations: which com- 
_bine elegance with utility may be inaccessible to him, from 
‘involving mathematical principles with which he is not fa- 
miliarized, or requiring an extent of discussion to render: 
them at all intelligible which would be inconsistent with the 
claims of his other pursuits. Among the great variety of 
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some practical result. 
If tried by the foregoing tests, the contents of | Enfield’s 
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tude of naked ‘results unaccompanied by the necessary il- 
lustrations,) it might be made to comprise more than twice 
the amount of valuable facts and principles. To substan- 
