ON SCHOOLS, &c. 405 



and of many ufeful employments. This is a 

 very judicious eftablifhment , and has produced 

 many excellent fcholars. 



IV. Colleges are likewife public inftitutions 

 for the inftruftion of youth -, and are moreover 

 endowed with certain revenues. They there 

 teach divine and human learning, in halls fet 

 apart for that purpofe, and in what they call 

 clafles ; where the fcholars are raifed, acccord- 

 ing to their faculties, and the progrefs they 

 make, from the lowed clafs to the higheft ; 

 which is called prima. All civilized nations, 

 from the Jews and Egyptians down to thofe of 

 the prefent day, have had their colleges. They 

 there teach not only the languages, but alfo ex- 

 plain the principal clafTic authors -, the regent 

 of each clafs pointing out to his pupils, at the 

 fame time, their various beauties and defeft. 

 The firft elements of philofophy, and particu- 

 larly of logic, are likewife there taught. In a 

 word, youth are there prepared for the univer- 

 fity , the foundation of that edifice of erudition, 

 which a dill more ferious ftudy is to raife, is 

 there laid in their minds : for he who carries no- 

 thing with him to the univerfity, will certainly 

 bring no great matters from thence. An efta- 

 blimment of this kind is called in Germany 

 Gynmafium, but improperly : for among the 

 Greeks that term was applied to a place fet apar* 

 for bodily exercifes. 



V. We 



