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determining to give my own children the kind of education which I myself received, namely, a domestic one, I soon found the want, not merely of elementary books on p.articular subjects, such as I could employ with entire satisfaction, but also of any comprehensive system, specifically applicable to the peculiar circumstances of a home course of instruction.

In a word, and with all the respect that is due to the many able and amiable writers who have favoured the world with their thoughts on the general subject of education, I have felt myself compelled, as well to digest the principles of procedure in such a course, as to devise the methods proper for giving them effect.

It is manifest that a scheme of family instruction ought not merely to comprise what may, in some