I know, young perfons are not admirers of long fpeeches. I will therefore conclude this humble addrefs with my fincere wishes, that to the virtues of humility, chastity, temperance, contempt of riches and honours, moderation in controversy, &c. which, according to the most authentic informations, your R. R. R. H. poffeffes in an eminent degree, you may go on to add as many more as there are play-things in your nursery, or fyllables in your spellingbook. I have the honour to be,

(May it please your R. R. R. H.)

Your R. R. R: H-fs's

Most faithful humble fervant,

CRITO.

Of the FIRST VOLUME.

ESSAY I

the unalienable right of a free people

Oto call their governors to account; and

confequent impropriety, as well as inutility, of
punishments for pretended libels. Arts of fates-
men the general caufe of commotions among free
fubjects. Inftances of exceffes and inconfiften-
sies in our political approbations and disappro-
bations. Real grievances too much neglected
amidst party altercation. Some
Some of them Speci-
fied, with hints toward redrefs.

ESSAY II.

Of the difficulty and importance of educa-
tion. What would enable a perfon effectually
to discharge that function. Remarks on fome
of M. Rousseau's peculiarities, fhewing the
greatest part of his proposals to be either impro-
per, ineffectual, or impracticable; and that it
is not fo much the modern plan of education,
that wants amendment, as the conduct of pa-
rents, and the morals of the people.

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Opinions of fome eminent antients and mo-
derns on the difficulty, of the apparent tempo-
rary evil and diforder in the natural and mo-
ral world; the reality of which is denied by
fome, and acknowledged by others. A folu-
tion of this difficulty deducible from the concef-

fions of fome antients and moderns, though not

generally attended to by themselves. Attempts

toward an intelligible account, drawn from the

fame premifles, of a religion believed by fome

among us.

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ESSAY I

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O judge of political fubjects, it is not ne ceffary to be mafter of the fublime geometry, or the Newtonian philofophy. Plain fenfe, applied to general, inftead of private concerns, comprehends the main of the matter. judge, whether the intereft of one's native country is properly attended to by those at the helm, understanding is hardly neceffary. If a people be oppreffed, they will feel it, whether they be ATHENIANS OF BOEOTIANS [a]. However ftatefmen may magnify the importance of their office, may it not be asked, whether common fenfe, common honefly, and a moderate knowledge of history, be not all the endowments necessary for enabling perfons in that station to make a much more fhining figure than the greatest part of those, who have undertaken adminiftration in this country? If fo, what are we to think of the common cant of our minifterial

[a] The ATHENIANS were the most fagacious, and the BOEOTIANS the heaviest people of GREECE. CRITO MINOR.

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