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Government of Boys, &c.” 167 
and the hopes of the offender crushed, by the voice of the 
foreman, pronouncing, in a shrill but steady tone, the awful 
word—Guilty ! 
_“One exception there has been, and but one ; and then it 
_ was the opinion of the attending teacher, that the jury did 
not understand the case. The boys who composed it hap- 
pened to be very young, because the number present be-ag) 
tmusually small, the elder scholars were all engaged in the 
various offices of the court.’’ ; 
Chapter 4th is ‘‘ On the best method of acquiring Lan- 
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translations. He objects to urging students to converse 
with each other in a language which they are acquiring, lest 
ime should form bad habits of speech. do 
hapter 5th is on Elocution. ig % 
“The practice of elocution,” says the author, “ is inti- 
Mately connected with the cure of impediments in the 
speech. Slight defects of utterance, as lisping, muttering, 
and the elision or substitution of certain sounds, yield to it 
almost immediately. Stammering isa more obstinate ene- 
my,and is notsubdued without much time and labour. 
'ytnay be thwarted ; and it will be thwarted by every thing, 
Which disturbs the mind, and irritates the temper of the pu- 
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“ Frequent opportunities for exercise in the open air with 
ompanious of his ownage,—a system which regulates his 
