A Table of the Value of the Greek Money,

A Table of the Value of the Roman Money,

OF PHILOSOPHY,

BOOK V.

PAGE

254

ARTICLE I. Philosophy may be very serviceable

in regulating the Manners,

ARTICLE II. Philosophy may very much contri-

bute to the Perfection of Reason,

ARTICLE III. and IV. Philosophy adorns the

Mind with an Infinity of curious Know-

ledge. It serves also to inspire a great

Respect for Religion,

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277

I. Plants, Flowers, Fruits, and Trees,

289

The Usefulness of these physical Observations, 305

ARTICLE IV. Philosophy serves to inspire a

great Respect for Religion,

BOOK VI.

306

OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CLASSES AND

COLLEGES,

309

The Introduction,

ibid.

tion of Youth,

ARTICLE I. The Importance of the good Educa-

ARTICLE II. Whether a private or public Edu-

cation ought to be preferred,

The Plan and Division of this Treatise,

ibid.

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PART

PART I..

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS UPON THE EDUCA-

TION OF YOUTH,

ARTICLE I. What end we should propose to

ourselves in Education,

ARTICLE II. To study the Character of Chil-

dren, in order to be able to manage them

well,

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ARTICLE III. To assume an immediate Autho-

rity over the Children,

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ARTICLE IV. To make one's self beloved and

feared,

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I. The Subject of a Reprimand,

343

ibid.

II. The Time of reprimanding,

III. The Manner of reprimanding,

ARTICLE VII. To reason with Children; to

prompt them by the Sense of Honour; to

make use of Praises, Rewards, and Caress-

es,

ARTICLE VIII. To accustom Children to a strict

Observance of Truth,

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ARTICLE IX. To accustom the Boys to be polite,

cleanly, and punctual,

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ARTICLE X. To make Study agreeable,

354

ARTICLE XI. To grant the Boys Rest and Re-

creation,

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ARTICLE XII. To train up the Boys to Virtue

by Discourse and Example,

ARTICLE XIII. Piety, Religion, and Zeal for

the Children's Salvation,

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PART

ARTICLE II. Of the Studies,

370

ARTICLE III. Of the Discipline of the College,

874

ARTICLE IV. Of Education,

380

ARTICLE V. Of Religion,

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Of the Duty of the Regents,

ARTICLE I. Of the Discipline of the Classes,

ARTICLE III. To make the Scholars appear in

Public,

ARTICLE III. Of Compositions and Public Acts, 421

ARTICLE IV. Of the Studies of the Masters,

ARTICLE V. The Application of some parti-

cular Rules to the Government of the

425

BOOK İV.

OF HISTORY.

CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE PER-
SIANS AND GREEKS.

THE THIRD PIECE, EXTRACTED FROM THE GRECIAN HISTORY.

OF THE LACEDÆMONIAN GOVERNMENT.

THERE

HERE is nothing perhaps in all Profane History better attested, nor at the same time more, incredible, than the Lacedæmonian government and the discipline established by Lycurgus. This wise legislator was son to one of the two kings of Sparta, who governed jointly; and might easily have obtained the crown, if he had pleased, upon the death of his elder brother, who left no male issue behind him. But he thought himself obliged to wait till the queen his sister was brought to bed, who was then with child; and upon her happy delivery, he took upon him to be tutor and guardian to the infant against the attempts of its own mother, who had offered to make away with her son, if Lycurgus would marry her.

He formed the bold design of thoroughly reforming the Lacedæmonian government; and that he might be the better enabled to make wise regulations in it, he judged it expedient to take several journies, to inform himself personally of the different manners of nations, and advise with such persons as were best skilled and most experienced in the arts of govern

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