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to us of all others the moft eligible, is nearly 

 contained in the following particulars, 



XVII. We would begin by placing before 

 the eyes of our pupil a fketch, the mere outlines 

 of univerfal hiftory, or chronological tables -, 

 or rather a large hiftorical and chronological 

 chart, fuch as that of which Juftus Lipfius 

 conceived the idea, and which we have fre- 

 quently intended to execute, had not other very 

 different occupations diverted our attention. 

 When we perceived that this general draught had 

 made a fufficient impreflion on the mind of our 

 pupil, we would make him read aloud the 

 moil concife and finifhed abridgment of hiftory 

 we could procure-, taking particular care to re- 

 mark to him, as he went on, the fcvcral iyn- 

 chronifms or events that happened at the fame 

 period among the different nations of the earth. 

 By this mean we mould by degrees fill up our 

 fketch, and provide our pupil with what ic 

 called the thread of hiilory. This preliminary 

 ftudy would take up but little of his time, and 

 would be of great uie to him during the whole 

 courfe of his 111 re wifhcd, 



that the hiftorics of all nations, ancient and 



c wrote on the model of the chro- 

 nological abridgment of France by the j- 



It, which we cannot too often re- 

 nd we have the high I m to lee 

 that our wiih is daily carrying into cxecuti ; , 



