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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 121. THE BEE, LITERARY WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, TO. Wednesday, Makch 27, 1793. ON THE BENEFITS TO BE DERIVED FROM FOREIGN TRAVELS. . Facilis decerisus Averni Noctes atque dies patec atri janua diti?. Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est. Sir, To tie Editor of tie Bee. JL Had no conception of the extent of my eld friend's genius, till in turning over a volume of Tourne- fort's travels, I found the following copy of a letter to his eldest son upon his travels. A. B. Caledonius Rusticus' Letter To His Son. Dear Son, I have three of your letters to acknowledge, one from Lyons, one from Blois, and the last from Paris. I am sorry to find you flying like a harlequin from place to place, without remaining long enough in any one to make useful observations. Vol. xiv. r This is the ridiculous error of all our countrymen, and I thought I.had said and written enough to you upon the subject to have inclined you to follow my directions. ' The cause ot' this fatal error is to be found in the preposterous mode of Britilh education. Young men of fafhion are confined for ten or a dozen years to learn the word for a pen, in three or four different languages; and to read, write, compose, and harangue, in all these, before they have been taught to think, or to reason with discernment. While the real powers of the mind arer thus laid asleep by mechanical and uniform employment, the brutal pafsions of the young animal, rising with the vigour and rage of his manhood, plunge him into all the excefses and miseries of debauchery. Street bullies, and bucks, and bloods, and dirty women of the town, become the real pro- fefsors, whose vile lef-ons they imbibe, and whose sentiments and manners they gradually acquir...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217887212 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021788721X |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 180 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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