406 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION.' 



V. We alfo lee with pleafure, many countries 

 adorned with academies or colleges, founded by 

 wile and generous fovereigns, for the inftruclion of 

 the young nobility and gentry. In thefe illuftri- 

 ous gymna :ums they are taught not only the fci- 

 ences and belles lettres, but fuch exercifes alfo 

 as are proper to their birth and rank, and for 

 that (ration in the world which they are one day 

 intended to fill. Among all the eftablifhments 

 of this kind there are in Europe, we know of 

 none that approaches nearer to perfection than 

 the celebrated Carolinum of Brunfwick : the 

 young gentleman there meets, at once, the moft 

 able proi'erTors of the fciences, the bed m afters 

 for the languages and exercifes, and, by the fa- 

 vour and indulgence of a very polite court, the 

 moil efficacious means of attaining a knowledge 

 of the world , at the fame time that he ac- 

 quires every kind of erudition which he may 

 hereafter v/ant. The plan of the Carolinum 

 were well worthy to be here given, as the moft 

 excellent model, if the bounds of this work 

 would admit of fuch particulars. 



VI. Unmerfities are foundations that have 

 arofe from the benevolence, the wifdom, and 

 policy of the beft of fovereigns, for the in- 

 ftruction of youth in the higher fciences. They 

 are formed of communities of the different pro- 

 feffors in philoibphy, theology, jurifprudenee, and 

 phyfic , who each read lectures in public chairs, 

 on the principles of their feveral fciences, to 



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