The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-12-19
EDUCATION.

NoRlNG the enfuing year ]. Ogilvie will refume
- and purdue the profeflional ilfruaion of youth
Il, the town OF Milton, Albemarle.-The hralthinefs
OF the irritation, the ~cheapnels of boarding, the al.
mot total exelulioh of every opportunity or ;pc;,..
h,Ent to di!hpation, are arnong!t the reafons thar have
induced him TO Remove from Richmond TO Milton.
III returning this employment, (Which painful and inn.
Porous circumitauces, have for a few mouths. COM
PEELED him TO luipend) he bring, with him an unde-
eayed jenub.lity to ITS attractions, and 4 deteruina-
tion TO perform it's duties with all the a1iduity and
Zeal he is able to exert. His courie of intrusion Is
d'vito.e into TWO parts, The fra part will compre-
hend Engii'h Grammar, Geography, Elocution, Eu.
clids Eieniehts, Arithmetic. Particular attention will
a'io be paid to ths audy of the dead languages. whore
It may be the with of parents. The fecoad Dart of the
eourie will comprehend, the p,ilofuphy of Rhetoric,
Logic Ethics, Political Economy, Criticifm, Com
pohtion, HItory, tonie of the molt curious and uiesul
branches OF Natural Phiioiophy, AID a variety of
n'n'e'iineouS information, which it would be diff
cuit To clais zild arraHgeu under ditina heads. Fl.
ih'hxs II H:ut be obvious to every perfon poT ,Ginp
any degree Of csnIour and intelligence, that f1ch a
coWte %! intrudtioD, is better calculated TO improve
Tie tacui'i.s of the mind, to purify and expand the
oet affections OF the heart, than al executive atten-
ton 10 the hudy of the dad languages. Of its fupe-
rior efficacy in overcoming Incidence, awakening Gu
riohty, intPring a love of knowledge and a generous
emulation IN the purfuit of it, and above all in train
iny young perions to habits of candour, benevolence
aud i~eit-oonmand, a p%erfonal and perieverin- expo
rtenc= Tor ieyerai years, has afforded him thu lnol Ia
t'-taetory evidence. When theGe c;rcumlances, com
bined with the additional Iabour both Of mind and
body, which ;he execution Of this plan mutt require,
are irpartiaiiy coniidered, he fruits that his charge
Tor tuition viii be deemed rcafonable. From ten TO
fifteen years Of are, would leem liz ecn.ya! 70 be the
period beit adapted to the fudies, that corpofe the
hr!t part Of the courfe From fifteen I. eighteen 10
thoie, which compete the fccond. Buys who CONF
melce at the age o. ten or twelve and advance pradu-
ally and regularly through every part of the courfe are
likely to reap far greater advantages, than fuch as en-
ter at 4 nsore Advanced age, whrn their habits are
!eis asx'ble ana when they are Obliged to hurry pre-
tlhtareiT over, or omit altogether, the elementary
f:dies. TIE latter is one of the circumstances, which
Ia. heretofore ocoai'cned his frequent change of place,
AMI which, ekcep, in a very few inttahces, has pre-
vsnted him from exhibiting an impartial fsccinen of
II: comparative and practical merits Of his courie of
initruction. 1t IS his mon anxious with, tina, a ma
jarity OF his pupils rnay be- competed of boys from ter
10 h:teen years OF age, who will continue under his
tuition until they ibail complcat the courfe. Under
ti'eie circumitan:es he INDUCES a hope that it would
be in his power TO reader fervices permanent and
il5fAntial, and to in!pire his pupils with a love of
knowledge and a prediction FOR manly, ufeful and
hououTablr ientinIents aud purfuits, which would ex-
ert a predominant and decifive influence over their
future h%aPPinefs ard uiefuInefs in lociety. He WIFI
Is IN receive from twenty-five 10 thirty pupils His
chlrge for tuition will be forty dollars per annum
for boys under the age Of fifteen, and fifty dollars pe-
annum for young p~erlons above that age: Parents
whp may he difpoled &c place their fous under his tu-
it.oa, will make application 10 the fubfcriber by letter
Or oth:rwi!e, in Milton. The fchool will be ope,,.
cd OIL the iecond n ldly in January, 1906.
JAMES OGILvIE.
Nixon, November 90, 1906.