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Excerpt from An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners
But retool-books, more especially, as they fall into the hands of chil dren and youth - of such as peculiarly need lights to guide them, and encouragements to excite them, when defective or erroneous, are more pernicious than any others; for the prove either false guides, which end their readers astray, or no gui es, which leave them in darkness. Hence, such books are worse than no books. What, then, is to be done, in order to avert the evil influence of bad books - an evil which has been ra idl increasing ever since Cadmus had the kindness to in vent letters f this evil cannot be remedied, surely it ma be easily retarded in its progress. Let arents, and guardians, and puglick func tionaries, at once set themse ves at work to elevate the profession of school-keeping to the rank and di ity of the other, less important, learned professions, by increasing the sa aries of instructers, so much as to enlist in this noble calling, none but men of genuine talents and truly liberal acquirements, and, not only will bad books soon hide their diminished heads, but the youth of our country will receive twice as good an edu cation as they now do, at a less arena, because, in afar shorter time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
