THE BELLES LETTRES. 5 



rational courfe in hiftoiy. Now opportunities 

 ihould alfo be given him of making fome ef- 

 fays of his genius, that it may be conjectured of 

 what future productions he may be capable. 

 The univerfity will furnifh him with the necef- 

 lary inftructions in the fuperior fciences, and he 

 will at laft advance to the practice of the polite 

 arts : he will invent, improve, produce ; he 

 will become at once a learned man, and a re- 

 fplendent genius ; even a Leibnitz, if providence 

 {hall permit. 



V. Hiftory ought in a peculiar manner to be 

 the ftudy of every one, who would attain a 

 liberal education , as it is a general florehoufe 

 for all the fciences, and a fchool for all the vir- 

 tues. Whoever is appointed to inftruct the 

 children of princes, of the nobles, or principal 

 inhabitants of the land, fhould endeavour, in 

 the firft place, ftrongly to imprels on their 

 minds a chronological feries of all the remark- 

 able events that are recorded in hi (lory, from 

 the creation of the world down to the prelent 

 day , making th obferve at the fame time 



the feveral iynchronifms, or the various events 

 that ! . :it the fame period in <iifYer- 



ent parts of tin- work!. By will 



open in their minds a repofitqry, where every par- 

 ticular event may hereafter be ranged in its pi 



or, otherwiie, without this, hi (lory would 



c haos to the memory, without 



order or connexion. When the lluiUv.t luis 



thus 



