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Yet was Dr. Darwin aware that thefc 

 voluminous receipts to make human angels ; 

 or to make practical philofophers of every 

 boy and girl in the higher and middle 

 clafles of life, were too popular for him, 

 without facrificing the defign of his Tract, 

 to bring againft them his own concifer 

 plan ; which, if rational, does away the 

 utility of them all. His little work could 

 not ferve Mifs Parkers if it combated the 

 educating metaphyficians and their unobey- 

 ing admirers. Avoiding fuch combat, his 

 Treatife would certainly call the attention 

 of the neighbourhood to the feminary for 

 which it was written. Some good rules 

 for promoting the health of growing chil- 

 dren will be found on it's pages, and they 

 promifed unfeed attention from it's author 

 to the difeafed in that fchool. On the 

 whole, however, it is a meagre work, of 

 little general intereft, thofe rules excepted, 

 with an odd recommendation of certain 



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