xxxviii INTRODUCTION. 



while it lafl*?, too f.nall at the fame time for a man to be 

 comfortable upon, he becomes neceffitated to employ much 

 of his atter<^'on upon other bufmefs immediately connected 

 with his fubfiilence ; fo that having neither a fufficient 



as belong to the Old Teftament. He teaches the graduates and under-graduates of 

 Columbia College, and others who apply for the purpofe, at fuch hours as do not interfere 

 with the ufual ledure hours of the College. He endeavours to lead his fcholars fo far 

 in one year, as to enable them to come, by clofe application to books and private induflry, 

 to any degree of improvement without the further oral aid of at.facher; though he 

 efFers to all fuch as will attend him a fecond year, to read, at a particular hour, one or 

 more of the moft difficult books of the Bible with them ; as alfo to acquaint them with 

 principles of the related languages, the Arabic, Syriac, and Chaldaic, which he confiders 

 as highly ufeful, and to a divine, whofe theological knowledge aims at fomething more 

 than what is commenfurate with the general ftandard of country minlftcrs, as nicejjary and 

 effentlal. 



The Profeffor only expedis, that for fuch an additional hour, a competent number will 

 apply to conftitute a clafs ; but for teaching the principles, he confiders his appointment 

 as obligatory to admit an individual. 



As he found it difficult to procure a printed grammar in fufficient numbers in this 

 country, and the ufe of different grammars would retard the progrefs of the ftudents, he 

 has broughc all that is neceffary and effential into the fmall compafs of four (heets, of 

 which each ol his hearers, by degrees, takes a copy ; and he flatters himfelf, that his 

 method hitherto has proved more compendious and more advantageous thsn that generally 

 purfued. Only a few of the principal rules are to be gotten by heart, and the reft arc 

 rendered familiar by the pni6tice« 



He conneils, from the beginning to the end, the praiflical exercifes of reailing and 

 mnal^zin^, with the explanation of the principles ; for which purpofe he choofcs the Pfalms 



