collections, it is impoflible to forget the fol- 
lowing elegant panegyric on elocution, of 
the Roman orator Neque vero mihi quid- 
quam prceftabilius i^idetur^ quam poffe dicendo 
tenere hominum ccetus, mentes allicere^ volunta- 
tes impeller e quo vetti ; unde autem vetif, dedu- 
cere. 
If then it be true, that Eloquence is the 
mod infallible ftep-ladder to fame, power 
and emolument, how (hall we account for 
its being totally neglefted, as a branch of 
education, in both our Univerfities ? What 
are the probable advantages of mathemati- 
cal learning, or, from a critical knowledge 
of Greek and Latin poetry, compared with 
what might be expected from a regular 
courfe of lectures on Eloquence, delivered 
by the Public Orator, or by a profeffbr of 
Oratory ? There are profeflbrs of Arabic and 
profeffors of MufiCj but we look, in vain, 
in the red book, for a profeflbr of the only 
art or fcience, call it which you pleafe, by 
means of which young men can expect to 
liiftinguifh themfelves in the fenate, at the 
bar, or in the pulpit, 
There are in this, and probably in every 
other Univerfity, many fludents who know 
themfelves, in point of fortune, totally in- 
dependent 
