T-zS on a course of readings March 2%. 



•that my attention is chiefly directed. I have had 

 little difficulty in procuring books, but to make a 

 proper selection from the crowded catalogue, I have 

 found no easy matter. Indeed there are no hours of 

 lost time I remember with more regret, than those I 

 have misspent in the perusal of absjird authors on 

 absurd subjects. The delays, and the toils, and the 

 hardships I have undergone, in struggling through 

 bogs and wildernefses, induce me to set up a guide- 

 post to fliew other future travellers the way. I make 

 the attempt with a confidence of doing no mischief, and 

 leading no one astray, as I am subject to the correc- 

 tion of you and youf learaed correspondents. 



Without farther apology, I submit to the conside- 

 ration of your readefs the following course of study^ 

 as calculated to convey a general outline of the prin- 

 cipal brancherof knowledge, and to prevent a waste 

 of time and patience, in a uselefs perusal of writers, 

 lefs qualified than the authors mentioned in the list, to 

 -afford the instruction requisite. 



I. Logic — Duncan's Logic. 



i.'T^heology — Hartley's observations on man, part It. 

 chap. 1st and 2d. 



3. Natural law, and moral philosophy — Paley's 

 principles of moral and political philosophy; or 

 Burlamaqui's natural and political law, (translated 

 by Nugent,) or Rutherford's institutes of natural 

 and political law. 



4. General politics — Montesquieu's spirit of laws 

 ••(except 27th, 28th, 30th, and 31st books.) 



5. History — 1st and 2d vols, of Rollin's ancient 

 history — Goldsmfich's Grecian history — Goldsmith's 



