PAGE ARTICLE I. Philosophy may be very serviceable 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- ARTICLE I. What end we should propose to ARTICLE II. To study the Character of Chil- III. The Manner of reprimanding, ARTICLE VII. To reason with Children; to prompt them by the Sense of Honour; to ARTICLE III. Of Compositions and Public Acts, 421 ARTICLE IV. Of the Studies of the Masters, BOOK İV. OF HISTORY. CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE PER- 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 VOL. III. A ment. |