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LETTER IV. 
I CONCLUDED my laft letter with a 
concife difcremination of Arts and 
Science, which together comprehend the 
objects of human intelligence, and confe- 
quently the objects of your future applica- 
tion. The former are, at prefent, entirely 
out of the queftion. Let us therefore take 
a general view of the latter. 
The Sciences, with which you have at this 
time any concern, are Arithmetic, Geometry, 
Logic, Rhetoric, Morality, and Revelation, as 
a branch of Theology. To thefe will be ad- 
ded, a continuation of your Claffical ftudies, 
with fome attention to Hiftory. Of thefe 
fciences, you are neceflarily totally ignorant. 
You have read, or rather coriftrued, a few 
detached fcraps of ancient hiftory; but that 
was folely with regard to the language in 
which they were written. As to modern 
hiftory, and the manners and improvements 
of different nations in modern times, you 
have been entirely precluded by your age 
and (ituation. From thefe confiderations 
it neceflarily .follows, that a boy, a young 
gentle- 
