4-28-42.uio. Bates 3.20-42 44671 BY THE EDIT O R. THE Reflection imparts to me fingular Satisfaction, that I have expended thofe Hours, which I have been able to redeem from my daily Occupation, on correcting. and enlarging a Work, which will eminently contribute to the Amusement and Improvement of young Perfons. Teach-ing the Greek and Roman Claffics has conftituted the principal Employment and the principal Felicity of my Life, and I look through a Series of Twenty Years with exalted Pleafure and Gratitude, in which I have done fome Service to my Country, in inftructing Youth in the best Species of Erudition, teaching them to understand and relish the immortal Productions of Greece and Rome, and by these Standards of literary Excellence, forming them to Purity of Diction, Elegance of Tafte, and Solidity of Judgment. This is the fole Department in which, as an INSTRUCTOR, I have done good, or indeed can confcientiously ferve Mankind. A 2 LS My |