The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-11-26
EDUcATION.
(law4w.)

nURiNG the enfuing year ]. ogilvie will refume
~ and purdue the profedional inftruaion of youth
in the town of Milton, Albemarle.-The heal,hinef.
OF the fituation the cheapneis of boarding, the al
mott total excuon Of every opportunity or incite-
msnt to dpaton, amongif the reafons that ha We
induced him to remove from Richmond to Milton
In returning this employment, (Which painful and i'm
Perious circumstances, have for few months, COM
PEELED him TO fupend he brings with him an unde-
cayed ieniibiity to its attractions and determine
ton to perform its duties with all the aiduty and
zeal he is able to His courfe of inarueion il
devGbie into parts The firft part will comprs-
bend Ensliih Grammar, Geography, Elocut;on, Eu.
chds Elements. Arithmetic, particular attention will
ALTO be paid to the udy of the dead languages. where
1t may be the with OF parents The econd part OF the
eourfe will comprehend the Phylofophy of Rhetoric,
Logic, Ethics, Political Economy, Crticifn, Com
potion Hilfory, foe of the mott curious and usful
branches of Natural Philolophy, and variety of
mifeellaneous information, which it would he diff
cult to clafs and arrange under dftina heads. He
thinks it muff be obvious to every perfon polfeiiing
any degree of candour and intelligence, that luch
cOurle of inruisn, is better calculated to improve
the faculties of the mind, purify and expand the
belt afe aions Of the heart, than executive atten-
tion to the udy Of the dead languages Of its fupe-
rior efficacy i'll overcoming Incidence awakening Gu
rioGty, inipirilg love of knowledge and generous
emulation in the purfui of it, and above all in train
ing young perfons to habits of candour benevolence
and felt -command, perfonal and perfevering expe
rience for feveral years, has afforded him the mott IA
tsfa6fory evidence. When theic crcuinitances com.
bined with the additional lsbour both cf mind and
body, which the execution of tAs plan muit REQUIRE
are impartally conidered he ,ruGs thut his charge
for tuition will be deemed reafonabe. From ten to
fifteen years of age would feem IN ccnryaL to be the
period belt adapted to the ftudies tia, cornpoe the
fri part of the courfe From fifteen to eighteen To
thoie, which compofe the iecoud. Boys who COM
mence at the age of ten twelve and advance rradu
ally and regularly through every part of the courf are
likely reap far greater advantages than fch as en-
ter at more advanced age, when their habits are
lefs flexible and when they obliged 10 hurry pre-
eiptately over, omit altogether the elementary
fudies The latter is of the circumstances, which
has heretofore occaoned his frequent change of place
and which except in very few inltances, has pre-
vented him from exhibiting impartial fpscimen of
the comparative and practical merits of his corfe of
inllruetion. It is his moff anxious with, that a ma
jority Of his pupils may be competed of boys from ten
to fifteen years Of age who will continue under his
tuition until they fball eompeat the courfe Under
thefe circumstances he INDUCES hope that il would
be in his power to render fervicss permanent, and
iubfautal, and to infPir, his pupils with a love of
knowledge and prediction for manly, ufeful and
honorable fentments and purfuts, which would ex
ert predominant and deciGve influence over their
future happiness and uiefulnefs in foeiety He wiA
to from twenty. five to thirty rup;ls: His
charge for tuition, will be forty dollars per annum
for boys under the age Of fifteen, and Fifty dollars per
anhum for young perfons above that age: Parents
who may be dfpofed place their fons ander his tu
itioH, will make application the ubicriber by letter
or otherwife, in Milton. The fchool will be OPEN
ed on the feeopd Monday in January 1906.
JAMES OClLVIR.
Milton, November o.