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to it, or to create a confusion on the subject 

 of the precept intended to be inculcated ; avoid- 

 ing, as much as may be, all circumlocutory dis- 

 coursings and admonitions, and seeking rather 

 to confine himself within the habitual limits of 

 the above nomenclature; which, with a view to 

 the clear separation of duties and explicit com- 

 munication by the voice, I have, not without 

 some consideration, thrown together as of gene- 

 ral use, and which I now offer for your adoption. 



In affixing precision to the terms of this 

 vocabulary, I have, in fact, combined the rules 

 also of conduct ; exhibiting thereby a summary 

 of duties, which will have the recommendation 

 of brevity, at least : on which account it is per- 

 haps the only part of these sheets that you will 

 peruse a second time; yet, without the illus- 

 trations they contain, in the clear exemplifica- 

 tion of precepts, you would not, I am convinced, 

 sufficiently have understood my meaning. To 

 the detail of those illustrations therefore I have 

 now to request a retrospect; by the lights 

 reflected from which, you will be enabled the 

 better to make an estimate of my system ; of 

 the relation of its parts and of its principles : 

 awaiting the due appreciation of which, by your 

 reducing it to practice, I have only to add a few 

 general maxims, or rules of conduct, by way of 



