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I. Directions for Reading with V. Table of Weights and
Elegance and Propriety. Measures. II. The ancient and present State of VI. The Seven Wonders of
Great Britain; with a compendious the World.
history of England. III. An Account of the Solar System. VII. Prospect and Description
of the burning Mountains. IV. Historical and Geographical VIII. Dying Words and Behaviour
Description of the several of great Men, when just
Countries in the World; with the quitting the Stage of
Manners, Customs and Habits of the Life; with many useful
People. Particulars, all in a
plain familiar way for
Youth of both Sexes. With Letters, Tales and Fables, for amusement and Instruction.
ILLUSTRATED WITH CUTS.
THE FIFTEENTH EDITION,
WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS.
London: Printed for DARTON and HARVEY, Gracechurch street, CROSBY and
LETTERMAN, Stationers Court, and E. NEWBERY, St. Paul's
Church yard; and B.C. COLLINS, Salisbury. [Price One Shilling.]
THE
INTRODUCTION. I AM very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and
quality so wholly set upon pleasure and diversions, that they neglect
all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them
easy to themselves and useful to the world. The greatest part of our
British youth lose their figure, and grow out of fashion, by that
time they are five and twenty. As soon as the natural gaiety and
amiableness of the young man wears off, they have nothing left to
recommend them, but lie by the rest of their lives among the lumber
and refuse of the species. It sometimes happens, indeed, that for
want of applying themselves in due time to the pursuit of knowledge,
they take up a book in their declining years, and grow very hopeful
scholars by the time they are threescore. I must therefore earnestly
press my readers, who are in the flower of their youth, to labour at
those accomplishments which may set off their persons when their
bloom is gone, and to lay in timely provisions for manhood and old
age. In short, I would advise the youth of fifteen to be dressing
up every day the man of fifty, or to consider how to make himself
venerable at threescore. Young men, who are naturally ambitious, would do well to observe how
the greatest men of antiquity made it their ambition to excel all
their contemporaries in knowledge. Julius Cæsar and Alexander, the
most celebrated instances of human greatness, took a particular care
to distinguish themselves by their skill in the arts and sciences. We
have still extant several remains of the former, which justify the
character given of him by the learned men of his own age. As for the
latter, it is a known saying of his, that he was more obliged to
Aristotle, who had instructed him, than to Philip, who had given him
life and empire. There is a letter of his recorded by Plutarch and
Aulus Gellius, which he wrote to Aristotle upon hearing that he had
published those lectures he had given him in private. This letter
was written in the following words, at a time when he was in the
height of his Persian conquest: ALEXANDER to ARISTOTLE, greeting . "You have not done well to publish your books of select
knowledge; for what is there now, in which I can surpass
others, if those things which I have been instructed
in are communicated to every body? For my own part, I
declare to you, I would rather excel others in knowledge
than in power... Continue reading book >>
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