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of himself hereafter. A radical deficiency on 

 this head, be his other attainments what they 

 may, will mark him with inferiority during the 

 / whole of life. 



It will be collected, from various passages in 

 this volume, that I am by no means solicitous 

 to conciliate favour with the gentlemen of the 

 green uniform : we can hardly, indeed, expect 

 to be on good terms together. It is impossible 

 that I should not awaken their jealousy, in the 

 delivering of precepts which, being so directly 

 opposed to their practice, go to the lowering of 

 their importance; and which, if acted upon to 

 the extent, would so much increase their labours. 

 Far, however, be from me the intention of throw- 

 ing censure upon them on the present occasion, 

 or of causing to be imputed to their negligence 

 the deficiencies of pupils, which have the full 

 benefit of all they can get, or are only admitted 

 for awhile as parlour-boarders, in these acade- 

 mies. It is the erroneous plan, the unprincipled 

 compromise with convenience, which forms the 

 substitute for education, that I am arraigning, 

 as necessarily involving the injurious conse- 

 quences I have mentioned, as well as not a few 

 others which might be added, to inflame the 

 account. I repeat it, that the nominal teacher 

 has quite enough upon his hands. It must not 



