The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-12-27
EDUCATION.

hURlNG the enfuing year 7. Ogilvie will reiume
~ and purfae the profeGionai intrusion of youth
IN the town of Milton, Albemare-The healthinef.
OF tse htuaton, the cbeapnels of boarding the al.
ihos total execution OF every opportunity or incite-
mept to dhpation, aniongf the reafons char have
induced him to remove from Richmond to Milton
IN returning this employment (Which painful and i'm
porous circumstances, have Tor few months coa,-
PsHed him to iufpcnd he brings with hin. an unde-
eayed 3enhbity to IT'S attractions, and 4 determine
ton to perform its duties with all the afidui,y and
zeat heis able TO exert. His courfe of ufruGion is
div'hbe into two parts: The frit part will comp-e-
bend Engliih Grammar, Geography, Elocution. Eu-
eds Eien,ests, Arithmetic Particular attention will
ao be paid TO the udy of the dead languages where
1t may he the with of parents The feeond part of the
eourie will comprehend, the Philofophy of Rhetoric.
Logic, Ethics, Political Economy Criticifnr, Com
petition, Haory, fome of the mott curious and ufcful
branches of Natural Philofophy, and variety of
mifcellanenps Information, which it would be diff
cult to ciais and arrange under diain9 heads. He
t'nks mum be obvious to every Pcrfon pofeIing
any degree of candour and intelligence that fuch 4
courfe of nruSties, better CALCULATED to improve
the faculties OF the mind to purify and expand the
bell atte3ons OF the heart THAN an excluiiye atten
tion to the tudy of the dead languages Of its fupe
rior efficacy in overcoming Incidence, awakening Gu.
riolity, nlPring love OF knowledge and generous
emulation IN the Puriut OF it, ard above all in train
ing young perions to habits of candour beneyolence
and felf-comniand, perfona and perfrvering expe.
rience ter fevera years has afforded him the moft "a
tisfatfory evidence. When ,hefe circumstances com.
bined with the additional labour both of mind ard
body, which the execution of this plan mutt require
are imPart;aiy conidefed, he truths that his charge
Tor tuition will be deemed Reasonable. From ten 70
MT IN years OF age, would feem in general to be the
period bet adapted to the Rudes, that compofe the
lrlt part Of the courie From fifteen to eighteen TO
tnoie, which cor,pofe the feeond. Boys who COM
mence at the age OF ten twelve and advance qradu
any and regularly through every part of the courf,
likely TO reap far greater dvantapes than cb az
ter at more advanced age, when their habits are
icf flexible and when they are obliged to hurry pre
e'pitaely over, or omit altogether, the elementary
eudes The latter is of the circumstances, which
has heretofore occaoned his frequent change of place
and which, except in very few inRances, has pre-.
vented him from exhibiting impartial frecimen of
the comparative and practical merits of his courfe of
initrietion. 1t is his noh anxious wih that a ma
jority OF his pupils may be competed of boys from ten
to hiteen years of age, who will continue under ms
tuition until they fhall ooppleat the coirfe Under
thee circumstances ne indulges hope that il would
be IN his power to render fervices permanent and
iublantial, and to infpife his pupils with love of
knowledge and prediction for manly, ufef,l and
honorable fentments and pnrfns, =v!ie, ,vsi,; cx
ert predominant and decifve Influence over their
future Happiness and ufefunefs in foeiety. He win
es to receive from twenty-five tn thirty pupils: His
ehtrge for tuition, will be forty dollars per annun,
for boys under the age Of hfteen and fifty dollars pet
ansum for young perfons above that age: Parents
who may be dipoied TO place their ions under his I'm,
itioa will make application 10 the fUbcriber bv letter
or otherwife, in Milton. The fehoo will be open.
ed on the feeond Monday in January, 1906.
JAMES OGILVIE.
Milton, November %, 1905.