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to infpirc courage, without turbulence— vivacity, 

 without forwardnefs — and difiidence, without 

 dejection — to adminifter praife, without puf- 

 fing up — corredion, without exafperating— and 

 fteady difcipline, without enfeebling the mind 

 in its beft energies. — Thefe arefomeof the grand 

 objects of education. 



Who, that confiders the dijiculties o{ this work, 

 the various difpofitions, capacities, and nurfrry- 

 educations of boys; and the different tempers, 

 views, and talents of parents and mafters, will 

 not be ready to make every candid allowance 

 for imperfeftion ? And yet, who, that confiders 

 ITS INFINITE IMPORTANCE, will not wifli evcrv 

 pofTible imperfeftion to be done away ? 



And who will not be ready to exclaim, with 

 the philofopher, 



" Quid munus reipublicae majus meliusve afFerre pof- 

 fimus, quam ii docemus atque erudimui Juventutem ?" 



Cicero. 



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