stronger in young minds, than a cursory reading in their own language, can be supposed to do. - By which means knowledge may be said to be inculcated into us.

Conversation too has the same effect. - We remember the person, his figure, his very dress, the circumstances of time, place, &c. which all concur to fix the ideas in our minds. - This would be a shorter and a pleasanter method of instruction; and why not practise it?

If the chief, which ought in this case to be the sole end of learning, be to teach us knowledge, science, and virtue, how are the dead languages necessary to that acquirement? Ars longa, vita brevis,1 is an old complaint. But the general method of education, which the superstition of our