PRACTICAL EDUCATION:

MARIA EDGEWORTH,

AUTHOR OF LETTERS FOR LITERARY LADIES,
AND THE PARENT'S ASSISTANT, &c. &c.

AND, BY

RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH,

F.R.S. AND M.R.I.A.

IN TWO VOLUMES ... VOL. II.

SECOND AMERICAN EDITION.

PUBLISHED
BY J. FRANCIS LIPPITT, PROVIDENCE, (R. I.) AND T. B. WAIT & SONS,BOSTON.
T. B. Wait and Sons, Printers.
1815.

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CONTENTS.

XIII.	On Grammar and Classical Literature	5
XIV.	On Geography and Chronology	31
XV.	On Arithmetic	37
XVI.	Geometry	54
XVII.	On Mechanics	57
XVIII.	Chemistry	85
XIX.	On Public and Private Education	92
XX.	On Female Accomplishments, &c.	109
XXI.	Memory and Invention	138
XXII.	Taste and Imagination	178
XXIII.	Wit and Judgment	214
XXIV.	Prudence and Economy	248
XXV.	Summary	267
	APPENDIX.
	Notes, containing Conversations and Anecdotes of Children	283

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PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

CHAPTER XIII.

ON GRAMMAR, AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE.

As long as gentlemen feel a deficiency in their own education, whenthey have not a competent knowledge of the learned languages, so longmust a parent be anxious, that his son should not be exposed to themortification of appearing inferiour to others of his own rank. It isin vain to urge, that language is only the key to science; that thenames of things are not the things themselves; that many of the wordsin our own language convey scarcely any, or at best but imperfect,

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