Ancient Languages are those which are 110 longer spoken by a living people, such as the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin : they generally form a part of the education of those students who are intended for the learned professions. The utility of empioving so much of the time of children at schools, in classical pursuits, and the study of .the dead languages, has been much questioned: upon this subject, a humorous writer thus expresses himself: "Who can patiently endure to see persons so studiously going back two thousand years, in search of that perfection which lies so plainly still before them ? To see men of sense and learning spending their whole and attention about AEolic Diga mas, of accents, or the fa passage in Horace and suffering the world, their own, to lie lie laud and occasional efforts of some private individual Had the same been practised the Greeks or Romans—had they studied nothing but Egyptian hierog we at fhis clay, have to travel to the Pyramids in the world would have nothing more than the ill-imitated forms of men, animals, implementsIf we think that not imitate. example? What possible reason be alleuged why the English at not, by care an ion, be made as good a as either the Greek or Latin ?. Had we the address of Swift Addison, what a petition n we draw up in favour of our poor mother to: the many hardships she has long endured the various insults and barbarous injuries she, from time to time, has suffered, and is still obliged to.

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