CONTENTS. 



employ lelfure. — -Ennui a fore difeafo. oeing a Llifeafe of ili? mlnH. — Tt<; eF £ls on 

 the Rich, who have not the knowl .ge of employing thtir leiiure. — . >' .iofophcr, 

 with a competent fortune, will enjoy hi^ leiiure more perfcfily than ihe Gymno'o- 

 ph!<^? of India, who had thfr food to feek. — The more leifure a Man hjs, the more 

 need has he of occu;)at on — This either Oi 13ody or Mind. — Occupation of th.* Body 

 neceflary for Heihh. — ')f the emplovment -^f ^ur iv:\i F^^r-nts in Paradife. — C)i the 

 occupation of Firming, — p .rticulariy in the manntr th^r Horace Farmed. — Of the 

 pleafures of Walking and Riding, — the e.xercileb of the Aiitient Athkts too violent 

 for any other ptrfons. p. 89. 



CHAP. IIL 



Difference betwixt Antient and Modern Philofophy. — Certainty of our knowledge of 

 Mind from Conkioulnefb. — Uncert<unty of our kii'^wleJ^'.- of th oper 1 ioiis of Body, 

 as our Senfes often deceive Ub. — Progrels of our Minds from Ideas to Science. — To 

 know what iScience is, we muft ftudy Ariltotle's Logic. — A Philofopher mufl be 

 firft a Scholar. — Of the reftoration of Learning in the 15th Centurv. — produced by 

 an event that leemed at firfl to put aii end to all Anticd Learaing, the taking of 

 Coi.ftantinople by Barbarians. — The Family of Medicis, protestors of Fupinve Grteks. 

 — Progrefs of Learning from Italy to other parts of Europe ; — much affiled by the 

 invention of Printing, — alfo by the invention of P^per, — and, lait of all, by Men of 

 fnperior Genius, Learning, and Induflry — Religion, as well as Morals, improved 

 by Antient Learning — The per^esflion of Language <hi wi: by it. Health preferved, 

 — and Leifure properly and profitably euipioyed. — ihe revival of Antient Learning 

 produced Schools and Colleges. P«95' 



CHAP. IV, 



Application to Money, a relief to a perfon who cannot enjoy a learned leifure. — The 

 leifure of the lower orders of Men Ihould be fpent in exercifirs, not in Drunkt.-^cfs 

 and Debauchery, as is moft frequently the cafe. — The manner of life of the Greeks 

 and Romans, compared with ours in Britain. — In the Country, the Romans were 

 Farmers, and pafled their Holidays m Military and Athletic Exerciles : — In Towns, 

 they had their Palseftras, their Campus Martius, &.c. — The Spartans cultivp.ted their 

 lands by Slaves, aod Exerciled themfelvcs only in Palaeftras. — This a moft violent 

 E-xercife. — The Athenians, befides their Martial Lxercifes, employed their Leifure 

 in the mod elegant manner -.— xft. In their Tncatre, where the Exhibitions conlilt- 

 cd of the three Fineft of the Fine Arts, Poetry, Mufic, and D«iJiCiug , — 2^, Xu the 



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