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of the influence and moment of fuperior edu- 

 cation, is now almofl: univerfally adopted. And 

 nothing, we are confident, is necefTary, but 

 to produce a well conceived and ufeful fcheme, 

 in order to fecure the mod honourable patron- 

 age, and the mod liberal encouragement. 



There yet remains one desideratum in Edu- 

 cation, which many parents would be happy to 

 fee fupplied, upon an unexceptionable plan. 

 The ftage which pafTes between a school, and 

 BUSINESS, is often a very diftrefling one to a 

 parent, and an ufelefs, if not a dangerous one, to 

 a young man. He has pafTed through the com- 

 mon forms of ClafTical Inftitution. He is rather 

 too old, to continue to pace round the beaten track 

 of a grammar fchool ; and yet he is too young, to 

 be trufted abroad in the world, as his ov^n mafter. 

 Add to this, that his education, thus far, has 

 been too confined and imperftr(5t, to anfwer its 

 nobleft ends, of giving a true enlargement and 

 direction to his ideas, and of producing a proper 

 tade for general and important fcience. 



What fhall be done to fill up this awkward, 

 and yet unfpeakably interefting, chafm of life ? 

 — It is beyond meafure defirable, that it might 

 be filled up with the purfuic of knowledge, in 

 fome line, fo as to affift and adorn all his future 

 progrefs. 



Every refpeftable tradefman mud have in his 

 view the idea, of fomctime retiring from, or at 



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