" _Introd. p. 3,
4, 5.
Since Mr. _Locke_'s Time, several good Grammars have been wrote
and publish'd for the Use of Schools; as _Brightland_'s,
_Greenwood_'s, &c.
(* 13) By Pronunciation is here meant, the proper Modulation of
the Voice, to suit the Subject with due Emphasis, Action, _&c_. In
delivering a Discourse in Publick, design'd to persuade, the
_Manner_, perhaps, contributes more to Success, than either the
_Matter_ or _Method_. Yet the two latter seem to engross the
Attention of most Preachers and other Publick Speakers, and the
former to be almost totally neglected.
(* 14) As nothing _teaches_ (saith Mr. _Locke_) so nothing
_delights_ more than HISTORY. The first of these recommends it to
the Study of grown Men, the latter makes me think it the _fittest_
for a young Lad, who as soon as he is instructed in Chronology, and
acquainted with the several Epochas in Use in this Part of the World,
and can reduce them to the _Julian_ Period, should then have some
History put into his Hand. _Educ. p._ 276.
Mons. _Rollin_ complains, that the College Education in
_France_ is defective in Teaching _History_, which he thinks may be
made of great Advantage to Youth. This he demonstrates largely in
his _Belles Lettres_, to the Satisfaction of all that read the Book.
He lays down the following Rules for Studying History, _viz_. 1. To
reduce the Study to Order and Method.
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