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T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE hiftory of the following production is briefly this: A lady, fond of blank verse, demanded a poem of that kind from the author, and gave him the Sora for a fubject. He obeyed; and, having much leifure, connected another fubje&t

with it; and purfuing the train of thought, to which his fituation and turn

of mind led him, brought forth at length, instead of the trifle which he at first intended, a ferious affair-a Volume.

In the Poem on the fubject of Education, he would be very forry to ftand fufpected of having aimed his cenfure at any parti

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cular school. His objections are fuch, as naturally apply themfelves to schools in general. If there were not, as for the moft part there is, wilful neglect in those who manage them, and an omiffion even of fuch difcipline as they are fufceptible of, the objects are yet too numerous for minute attention; and the aching hearts of ten thousand parents, mourning under the bittereft of all disappointments, attest the truth of the allegation. His quarrel therefore is with the mifchief at large, and not with any particular inftance. of it.

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