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of fcience, no advantages whatever, of any other 

 kind, deftrve a moment's regard, without it. 



And it is, perhaps, equally to be regretted, 

 that fo few parents are proper to have the 

 fole direction and management of their own 

 children. * 



It is far more eafy to form the theoretic idea 

 of a fchool, wliich you might call " The school 

 OF VIRTUE AND OF SCIENCE," than to realize it 

 in action. And yet, I fear, that many parents 

 would not approve of even this fchool, if it were 

 not likewife, "The school of shewy accom- 

 plishments," which, with many, are of far 

 greater moment, than virtuous excellence. 



The MIDDLE PLAN, which we have already- 

 mentioned, feems calculated to blend, in fome 

 degree, the advantages, and to divide the dif- 

 advantages, of both the others. By enlarging 

 a private fchool, fo as more nearly to approach 

 a public one, you fecure every defirable advan- 

 tage for emulation. And, by having -no more, 

 than can be under the continual infpection and 

 management of the mafter, you provide for that 

 particular and conftant attention to every in- 



* The faying of Philip upon the birth of his fon Alex- 

 ander, pays a high compliment to the philofopher ; but 

 Ariftotle himfelf could not command fuccefs. His pupil 

 does not feem to have fully anfwered to his tutor's care, 



" Non tarn gaudeo, quod natus elt mihi filius, qaani 

 quod tempore Ariftotelis natus eft, cui tradatur erudiendus." 



dividual, 



