They also carried painting and statuary to the highest pitch; of the former, we have no perfect specimens; but the statues of Phidias and Praxiteles are still unrivalled. 717. The Greeks were followed by the RoMANS: in history, by their Livy, Tacitus, Justin, Polybius, and Sallust: In eloquence, by Cicero; In morals, by Seneca, Pliny, and Plutarch. In criticism, they had their Quinctilian and Longinus; and numerous other writers in every branch of knowledge. The Romans were followed by the ITALIAN Guicchardini, Davila, Petrarch, Poggio, &c. FRANCE boasts of its Montesquieu, Voltaire, D'Alembert, and Marmontel. GERMANY, of its Schiller, Kotzebue, Klopstock, and Wieland, And SPAIN of its Cervantes and Lopez de Vega. 718. The genius of ENGLAND, favoured by political liberty, has proved itself little inferior to that of ancient Greece; it has excelled in every branch of literature. In historical compositions, we have had Clarendon, Robertson, Hume, Gibbon, Belsham, Roscoe, and Gillies; In morals, Locke, Addison, Johnson, Swift, Hawkesworth, Paley, and Blair; In philosophy, Bacon, Harvey, Newton, Boyle, Clarke, Priestley, Halley, Franklin, Hunter, Berkeley, and Jenner; In legislation, Coke, Blackstone, and Mansfield; In mathematics, Briggs, Newton, Simpson, Emerson, Waring, and Hutton; In chemistry, Black, Priestley, and Day; In romance, Richardson, Fielding, D.5e, Smollet, Sterne, and Burney. 719. To concentrate and give effect to individual labours, societies have, latterly, been formed in all parts of the world; and on these now depend, in a great degree, the further unprovement of man, Thus, in England, we have the Royal Society, the Antiquarian Society, the Royal Academy, the Society of Arts, and the Board of Agricul ture. In France, there is the Imperial or Royst Institute; and at Berlin, Madrid, and Peterburgh, royal societies like those of London. America likewise has its societies; and there are others in India; all labouring for the pro motion and propagation of knowledge, Ohs - Effect has been given to study, and improvements have been accelerated, in every branch of knowledge, by means of the Art of Printing. In England, alane, this net is the means of producing 500 now pre cations per annum; besides 70 magazines. Jonru da, nr 1 Leviews; and 250 several newspapers, Of the Monthly, Macagine, esteemed the best in Iurope, near1 = 5000 μm, regularly sold and of all the monthly works, at least, 100,000 per month. Of the newspapers throughort the United IC agdom, above half a million are soll jut week. TO THE UNIVERSAL PRECEPTOR. Questions on Chap. 1. to vII. 1. What art was not common to all savage life? 5 If only two people lived on an acre in England, how many inhabitants would it support? 6 What are the English effecting for the people of Hindostan ? 7 Among what nations is there at this day no property in land? 8 What changés do silkworms undergo? 9 What were the substitutes for glass windows before the invention of glass? 10 What was the mode of life among the earliest families? 11 What were the ancient qualifications of a chief? 12 What are the native or indigenous fruits of England? 13 What root did Raleigh bring from America, and when? 14 Of what classes of minerala are chalk, diamond, gold, coals, and salt ? 15 What currency is pernicious, and why? 10 What are the improved breeds of sheep in England, and what is the value of the fleece of each ? 17 What is the use of tan-pit: ? 18 What is the warp in weaving. 19 What is the most convenient material for building, and how obtained? 20. What is an oxyde? 21 What number of pounds per day would an acre of ground produce in mution, potatoes, peas, carrots, or parsnips? 22 How many houses are employed in purposes of pleasure? 23 What is meant by rotation of erops, and what is the use of it? 24 What savage people were without the use of fire? 25 What is the condition of man in a savage state? 26 How many different kinds of grass are there, and what are the two principal subdivisions P 7 What is the use of knowledge ? 28 How many fanus might there be in England and Wales, if they were all of the smallest beneficial size? 29 What are coals, and where are the principal coal works? Which is the heaviest, and which the lightest of the me tals, and how many pounds of the lightest will make ten pounds of the heaviest ? 31 What metal is essential to agriculture? 32 What is the process called by which fruits are improved? 33 What is paint made of, and for what purpose? 34 What is glans made of, and how was it discovered? 35 How many orders of architecture are there ? and trace them or copy them neatly. 38 What is the chief manufacture of Lancashire and Lanarkshire? 37 How many unwound cones of raw silk will extend round the world? 38 What breeds of oxen are the most preferred? 39 What are stiff, what light, and what barren soils? 40 What people go a week without food? 41 What was the condition of the ancient Britons? 42 What is line used for? 43 Where is the greatest quantity of silk produced? 44 What are the people who live in wigwams, and who those that live underground 45 How many people in England eat up ten oxen in a year? 46 If all the inhabitants of Great Britain ate potatoes only, and each ate six pounds per day, how many more peo ple might be maintained than at present ↑ 47 What poet has so well described a cotton-mill? and transcribe and repeat his lines. MTOT 46 What is Ninen made of, what ropes, and whant enlico ? and describe the processes. 49 How is wool prepared? 50 How is metal separated from the ore ? ༄༞ ་ ས ། སྒྲ Questions on Chap. VIII. IX. X. XI. 51 What is the general principle of the mechanical powers? 52 Why will not water rise 50 feet in a pump ? 59 In what is a duel coronet like a marquisat, and in what do they differ? 54 What are the duties of man in society? 55 What are commanders of armies and fleets called P 56 Who wrote certain lines against war P and transcribe and repeat them. 57 How is water forced to such great heights out of fire-engines ? 58 In how many days and years would a cannon-ball reach the sun, which is 96 millions of miles off? 59 If the army estimates for 1811 were 18,000,000 pounds sterling, how much is that per man? 60 With what authority do the taxes originate? 03 Who commit accused persons to prison for trial P 62 What is the whole of the projecting angle of a fortification called ? 63 If a house weigh 600 lbs., and he walk 4 miles an hour, Mercating a momentum of 24 (4 X 6) how fast must a man run who weighs 200 lbs., to overpower and knock down the horse ? 64 What is the triumph of mechanics? 65 What is the raive of a pump, and how does it move? 68 How is the inland trade of Great Britain carried on ? 67 Name the eight principal points of the compass. 68 What country encourages none but inland trade? GWhere are carpets chicily manufactured, and how are they Wove? 701 What is a political constitution? 7 What is the duty of a grand jury P 7 Whats a ship of the line? 73 What are the names of the soldiers that serve on board of bra shipta DNA E |