THE

MONTHLY REPOSITORY

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THEOLOGY

AND

GENERAL LITERATURE.

POPULUMQUE FALSIS
DEDOCET UTI
VOCIBUS.

Hor.

" To do something to instruct, bot more to undeceive, the timid and admiring student ;-
to exeité him to place more confidence in his own strength, aud less in the infallibility of
great names ;-to help him to emancipate his jadgment from the shackles of anthority ;-to
teach him to distinguish between showy language and sound sense ;-to warn him not to pay
himself with words;

-to shew him that what may tickle the ear or dazzle the imagination,
will not always inform the judgment;-to dispose him rather to fast on ignorance than to

Fragment on Government.

teed himself with error."