MY reading ably desultory and immet of treatises, of my notions, and relates to science, I am a a figure among try gentlemen, in king Joanding. to me a map of old Ortelius is as autic as Arro knoo Asia; est conjecture of tion of Ne do I -named of terrae Incognitae. I ronomy. I do not knoar; or t sig Venus only by ness -- and if tentous morn o make appearance in t, I verily believe, t, errified, from sy and of observation. Of ory and cs, suc udy; but I never deliberately sat doo a cry. I dim appre monarcimes times ts as first in my fancy. I make t conjectures concerning Egypt, and painstaking, got me to tood t proposition in Euclid, but gave me over in despair at tirely unacquainted ter man t;small Latin and less Greek.quot; I am a stranger to texture of t trees, from tance of my being to spirit into t seen it in quot;on Devons leafy s; -- and am no less at a loss among purely tos, tools, engines, mec t I affect ignorance -- but my many mansions, nor spacious; and I o fill it curiosities as it can acimes tle discredit in tock. But t is, a man may do very tle kno, in mixed company; every body is so muco produce o call for a display of your acquisitions. But in a tete-a-tete trut. t alone for a quarter of an does not knoely got into a dilemma of t. -
In one of my daily jaunts beto take up a staid-looking gentleman, about ty, ions (ing), in a tone of mild auty, to a tall youto be neit, but sometaking of all turally enougion to me; and s of ty and punctuality of tance of an opposition coacely set up, ies of its success -- to all urn pretty satisfactory ansiquette by some years daily practice of riding to and fro in tage aforesaid -- ling question, morning in Smit seen it, and do not greatly care for suc of exions, I o return a cold negative. tle mortified, as onis my declaration, as (it appeared) come fres, and doubtless o compare notes on t. I a fine treat, as it far exceeded t year. e e, ed freso a dissertation upon ttons ttle in , as ture of my morning avocations me into some sort of familiarity erial; and I o find I ate of t -- y to t once, by inquiring o tal of all tail s song t name Ac, ;ion.quot; My companion sa, and, tc coming in vie good-nature and dexterity sed ion to t of public cies; ive merits of provision for t and present times, ions on tic institutions, and cable orders; -- but, finding me rations from old poetic associations, trongly fortified ions reducible to calculation on t, ter up; and, try beginning to open more and more upon us, as Kingsland (tined termination of a upon me, in t unfortunate position ive to tion. tering out somet trange regions (ion, topping relieved me from any furtting out, left me in table possession of my ignorance; and I off, putting questions to an outside passenger, Dalston; and my companion ted from at our first acquaintance, must ly a kind-ed man, aining information at any rate. It did not appear t ook any interest, eit t o seek for kno ure gave birto some reflections on t times.
[Footnote] *Urn Burial.
Rest to tinct, of t all learning ained in taug as superficial and useless, came to task as to a sport! Passing from infancy to age, tual cycle of declensions, conjugations, syntaxes, and prosodies; reneantly tions of t; life must last like one day. t garden, reaping s of time, among till, but kings; t muc of like dignity mild sceptre attributed to king Basileus; tin, tately Pamela and toyro, serving for a refreserlude of a Mopsa, or a cloas!
it a savour doto Colets, or (as it is sometimes called) Pauls Accidence, set fort;to ex every man to t intendeto attain tanding of tongues, treasury of vain and lost labour; for so muc is kno noty; and no building be perfect, o fall, and unable to up; ately preamble (comparable to ton commendet;o prefix to some solemn la promulgated by Solon, or Lycurgusquot;) correspond rate t pious zeal for conformity, expressed in a succeeding clause, y of faiticles ! -- quot;as for ty of grammars, it is ably taken aies ly drao be set out, only everyaug in cers.quot; a gusto in t able t ; his noun!
t; and t concern of a teac day is to inculcate grammar-rules.
ter is expected to knotle of every t to be entirely ignorant of any t be superficially, if I may so say, omniscient. o knoics; of cry; of o excite ttention of t into mecoucatistics; ty of soils, amp;c. botany, titution of ry, cum multis aliis. You may get a notion of some part of ed duties by consulting tractate on Education addressed to Mr. lib.
All ted to instil, not by set lessons from professors, scervals, as reets, or saunters tural instructors), part of ed from o be done in sc insinuate kno tempora fandi. seize every occasion -- time of t of soldiers going by -- to inculcate someture, but must catc it as an object of instruction. interpret beauty into turesque. relisable improvement. Noto spoiled by ticating medium of moral uses. t Great Book, as it o o all intents and purposes, a book, out of edious o distasting scions to rusive upper-boy fastened upon sucimes; some cadet of a great family; some neglected lump of nobility, or gentry; t drag after o to to Mr. Bartleys Orrery, to ticon, or into try, to a friends o e ering-place. tends s. ual boy.
Boys are capital felloes; but traint is felt no less on t quot;playt; tires alo ts, sporting on tions at my neat suburban retreat at Sance made more s -- inexpressibly take from task. It is like ing to music. to modulate my periods. t at least to do so -- for in t tender age try, far unlike ts of mans conversation. -- I s spoil t, and diminisime.
I be domesticated all my days y to my o, if I kno all, from any considerations of jealousy or self-comparison, for tituted tune and felicity of my life -- but t of too constant intercourse s above you, instead of raising you, keeps you dooo frequent doses of original train ion of t faculty you may possess of your o entangled in anotall varlet, -pace yours to lassitude. tant operation of sucent agency o imbecility. You may derive ts from ots are cast, must be your oellect may be imparted, but not eacellectual frame. -
As little as I so be altle (or ratill less) is it desirable to be stunted does. trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
e at our ease in ter ? -- because quite at of place, in ty of tle people, and fit tature of anding to yours. meet you on ts a point given eac s to be teac ttle sketc met I o make to instruct me in tlemen in augo compose Engliss of a scer are coarse, or t tell out of scraint of a formal and didactive ellect loose in society, tions. -- be his friends.
quot;I take blame to myself,quot; said a sensible man of ting to a friend respecting a youtted ly -- quot;t your nep more attaco me. But persons in my situation are more to be pitied, tly, ardently affectionate s, but ions. tion of master and sc be to you, imes say to me, urn after some years absence from scer, bringing a present of game to me, or a toy to my terms for my care of tion. A -- ted and er itude for t long years I cs anxiety, never could repay me akes for gratitude and kindness for me, is but t sensation, ing terms tomed to look up to oo, quot;teresting correspondent goes on to say, quot;my once darling Anna, is ter.-- ter ougo be a busy notable creature, and fearing t my gentle Anna ling mot t still, of t, and o ten to fasten do I able to enderly, promised for my sake to exert o perform ties of uation. S ion; and all t never descends to meanness. But I my gentle, doo enjoy an er tigue of to listen to so-morroask. and ures are cies of uation. to ters er; to ion and mine. Yet titude forbids me to to ted to be tered creature, and can I reproac? quot; -- For tion of tter, I am indebted to my cousin Bridget.