On the Upes of Claffical Learning, 109 
On the Uses of Crassicat Learnine, by G, Grecory, 
D. D. Domeftic Chaplain to the Lord Bifhop of 
Landaff. Addreffed to Dr. Percivat, 
Read Nov. 4. 
Dear Sir, 
y* all human purfuits, if we would form a juft 
eftimate of their value, a clofe. and methodical — 
examination of their ufes and advantages is abfolutely 
neceflary. A man may read and write whole 
volumes of declamation, and yet not underftand 
the fubje&, which has apparently occupied his 
thoughts. . Without complimenting indeed unreafon- 
ably the age in which we live, (for in fome inftances 
it appears to have been extravagantly complimented) — 
this, I apprehend, may at leaft be advanced with 
truth and modefty: that a more logical and lefs con- 
fufed method of inveftigating truth, has been 
adopted of late years; fenfelefs definitions, at firft 
introduced by the fchool of Ariftotle, are generally 
~ Jaid afide, and faéts are appealed to with confidence, 
as the only bafis of folid argument. 
There are no fubjects more univerfally interefting 
tomankind, than thofe which are connected with the 
education of youth; and) I fhould humbly conceive 
that which I have chofen for the prefent Effay, not 
entirely unworthy the attention of your moft refpec- 
table and eminently ufeful Society, 
. Without 
