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 CHAP. XXII. 



DIGRESSION ON EXERCISES- 



THE principal intention of this work being to 

 ferve as a guide to youth in the carreer of 

 their ftudies, andefpecially to give them fome falu- 

 tary advice for the employment of that preci- 

 ous time which they devote to the academy and 

 univerfity, the reader will not be furprifed to 

 find, in this and the three following chapters, a 

 very brief analyfis of thofe exerciies, arts and 

 fciences, of which a man of letters ought at 

 lead to know the names and fipft principles, 

 though they do not directly appertain to the fyf- 

 tem of general erudition : of thofe arts, which 

 may be even called frivolous, but which the 

 wifeft legiflators have eftabliflied for the im- 

 provement of mankind. 



II. How ufeful, how agreeable fo ever ftudy 

 may be to the mind, it is very far from being 

 equally lalutary to the body. Every one ob- 

 Icrvcs, that the Creator has formed an intimate 

 connexion between the body and the mind , a 

 perpetual action and reaction, by which the bo- 

 dy inftantly feels the diforders of the mind, and 



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