Moral and Political Dialogues with Letters on Chivalry and Romance Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1771 edition. Excerpt: ... ability to look into both; but would you train up. your son in a way that is likely to indispose him, right or wrong, .to the institutions of his own country i Besides, are there fewer prejudices, dnnk ye, in the men of other churches and governments, than our own? or, are their professors and institutors of youth more free from popular errors and hiind attachments, though of a different sort, than the tutors and masters of educatioa in our country? jav, consider with yourself my Lord; js there not as much tyranny in the administration of some they call free states; and as much restraint and persecution jin the principles of some they call/rv churches tburches, as can. fairly. be charged on the monarchy or church of England? So that what you could expect to gain by preferring these foreign schools of learning to your own, I cannot easily imagine. AU that is worth acquiring in either, you have, at least, an equal chance to. meet. with at home.: and what should be avoided, may, nay must, with more probability, be encountered abroad Bvae your Lordship, perhaps, would confine your young traveller to no ope feat of learning; apd have it only in.iew to convey him hastily, under the wjng of a tutor, through. many a. famous academy, without settling him in any. This, I must confess, is thp way to keep clear of prejudices % but, whether any solid instruction, or just science either of men or things, is to be gathered from. fe ' LORD SHAFTESBURY. '.'-You have. done me the favour j to' imagine many projects and designs for me, which I was too dull to entertain in my own thoughts.' But, if the education of a young man of rank and quality cannot be carried on without the assistance of academical instructors, I would much sooner trust i him..