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OBSTACLES PREJUGES Lawyers UNIVY Education.
Lectures on the Sciences of Natural History
Natural Philosophy, Anatomy, Chymistry, they
might attend of Course & by obligation –
The attendance on a certain number of courses
in each might be the condition of the Degree.
Anatomy could be commodiously and only in Winter: Botany
one branch of Natural History, only in Summer
Chronolgy might be This might be left to their choice whether they
would attend a course of Chronology, illustrated
(as the Treasures in this head which are kept locked up only to
be opened occasionally to gaping visitors would
afford excellent materials, for doing) by the exhibition
of the visible [proofs] which we have remaining
of it in Medals Inscriptions & other Antiquities
necessary to the possessing, in the way of a Matter, of one of those Sciences.
Mathematics are not to be learned from by Lectures
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UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Law for the like reason as the former is not to be learnt to any advantage by Lectures
unless it be more easy to apprehend a discourse
by the Ear, when those parts which have to be
most difficulty intelligible to the Auditor pass on
before him with the same uniformity of progress in motion
as those which are most easily, those by the Eye,
where he can apportion everywhere proportion the time of contemplation
to the demand for it.
In might in like manner be left to his choice whether
he would ascend to the heights of Astronomy.
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Of all those Lectures, which are Sciences of
things, there is not one but wherein the young
Student would not find amusement a present pleasure, as well as
instruction, the foundation of future pleasure: the perception
of which would powerfully or operate with any endeavour:
that should be used to recommend them.
The little attention that is bestowed to the cultivation
of their mind, is employed manifested upon the abstruse & uninteresting Science
of words; as in in spelling of Homer, of Horace
& of Virgil: in [proceeding] comparison of Ideas the degradation to the introgradation
of intelligence after the most approved method, of
the Ancients in learning for instance from Cicero that pain is no evil:
that the malignity of vice of (which is as otherwise
merits to be avoided than from its the natural tendency
which it has to produce lasting pain) is resident
not in that pain but in the transient pleasure
with which it proposes it: that is, not in the hook but in
the bait:⊞ ⊞ In studying the Art of persuasion in the desultory
immethodical prohesions of that eloquent declaimer, [& not in the accurate & profound anatomy instead of an
of the Human Heart:] more excellent in the practise
of his Art, than in the Theory which in
every art follows the other at a long interval:
instead of the profound and accurate anatomy of
the Human Heart: an Anatomy, the principal
Subjects for which are always chosen to more advantage
from the Country & from the from among the inhabitants & amidst the transactions of the Country
of him who studies it: in brooding with little intellection knowledge & with much digest over the [forms of]
disputation in mood & figure, the excrements
of sound Logic.
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In taking to pieces with great pains toil, shreds from
the of Firence of Pallust, of Virgil, Horace of Cicero
to patch them up for a covering to some
proposition of common-place morality:‡ ‡ in order, as the
consummation of
so much lost
to be able in the
fullness of time
to a: in
having by dint of labor to counterfeit fall into frigid at passage
of dark from which either unfeigned unforced delight is to
be gained, or nothing.
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