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Show P 0 S T S C R I P T· AS you and the ref! ofthe Youth educated by me, have had it in your Power to know the' Grounds and Principles of moft Branches of ufeful and ornamental Knowledge; if you fhould lind Inclination and Opportunity to purfue them, it will be neceffary to furnifh yourfelf with fome of the bell Books on the refpeC\ive SubjeC\s. I will therefore name you a few of the moll comprehen· five and perfpicuous, which you may read, for the moll part, in the Order I fhall place them-in.J taking care to digefi thoroughly what you read, before you proceed farther; to purfue but one Branch of Knowledge at once; to confider carefully what you have read; and, as much as you can, to fet down in Writing fhort Sketches of what you read. Some of the following Books you know already in fome Meafure, and others of them will be new to you. In LoGic, or the Art of Thinking and Expreffing one's Thoughts, Grunwood's Englifo G.-ammar. Watts's Logic. Lockt on Human Underjlanding. And the Conduff if tht Underjlauding, by the fame Author. In 0ECONOMICS, The Sp~llator, Tailer, and Guardian. Various Colletliom of prudential Maxims and Aphorifms. And the Lives of eminent Ptrjom. But it is chiefly by Bufinefs, by Travel, -t>r Ex'perience, and by the Converfation of thofe who P 0 S T S C R I p· T. 63 who have had thefe Advantages, that this Branch of Knowledge is to be acquired. In MoRALITY and DiviNITY, Wollajlon's Religion if Nature delineated. Puffindorff's Law of Nature and Nations. Grotius on the Rights of War and Peace. Gajlrel's Chrijlian l'!flitutes. Clarh o_n _the Att:i~utu. Lardner's Credibility of tht Chrij/tan Reltgton. Butler's Analogy. Hammond, LeClerc, and Patrick, on the01dT1Jament. Cla;ke, Locke, Pyle, and Whitby on the New. T~ whtch add, BarrtJW's Tiilotfon's, and Clarkt'~ Sermon;. In HISTORY, Rollin's Meth•d if Studying the Belle_s, Lettr~s, ( o~ which Hijlory is ORe Part.) Rol/m s Antunt Hijlory. Univerfal Hijlory. Pufftndo_ r.!f' s !ntrodullion to the Hijlory of EurcpL. Rapm s Hiftory if England. Mezeray' sand Danirl' s of Fra~ce. Mariana's o(. Spain. Le Clerc's if the Untied Provmces. Sir Paul Ricaut's of the Turks. Oakley's of the Sarauns. Potter's Gruk and Ke~1ut's Roman Antiquities . .Atlas Hijlorique: To ~htch add, . Sir lfaac Newton's Chronology. And !n E~clefialhcal Hifiory,Eufebius,Socrates,&c. Caves Ltves if the Fathers. Dupin's Eccl¢ajlical Hijlory. Hijlories if the Councils if Pija, C~n. Jiance, Baf!l, and Trent. Bower's Hijlory of the Popes. L11nborch's if the lnquijition. S/eidan's Hijlory .if the Rejorm11tion in Germany. Brandt', of tbat tn the Low Countries. Ruchat's in Switzerland. Burnet's in England, abridged by himfelf. In . CoMMERcE, _Malcolm'.' and Weijler's Treatife of Book-keepmg. Umverfal Library oJ: Trade and Commerce. The Merchant's Map o/ G 3 Commt~w, |