Extenfion of Liberal Education in Manchejler. 1 3 



If with thefe were combined, fome continued 

 attention to languages, antient and modern— 

 and to MATHEMATICS — the fcheme would be filled 

 up, in a manner highly refpcctable and ufefol. 



Some eftablifliment of this nature feems want- 

 ing, to compleat the many advantages for edu- 

 cation, which are already enjoyed among us. 

 Perhaps, few places can boaft of greater advan- 

 tages for the education of boys, in the firft rudi- 

 ments of fchool learning. Our more public and 

 more private fchools have juftly obtained a very 

 confiderable celebrity, not only at home, but 

 abroad. If, to fo fair a foundation could be 

 added a fuperftruflure equally excellent, the 

 whole edifice would appear compleat, ftrong, 

 and noble. 



A fcheme like that we are now flcetchin<y» 

 might ferve as a very agreeable preparation for 

 thofe, who are defigned for the learned pro- 

 fessions by opening their way to thofe more 

 profound and fyftematical inftruflions, which 

 they would afterwards receive, in our more pub- 

 lic and celebrated inllicutions. And, to thofe 

 Gentlemen defigned for the commercial line, 

 it would be abundantly fufficient, in order to 

 give that general infight into fcience, which 

 might anfwer the noblcfl: purpofes of mental 

 cultivation. 



We have already mentioned, the intermediate 

 ftage, between a khool and bufinefs, as often an 



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