In a Way most suitable for trying the GENIUS, and advancing the Inftruction of YOUTH. IN TWELVE PARTS. Illuftrated with MAPS and useful CUTS. GEOMETRY, and AR-IX: On ETHICS, or Mo The THIRD EGITION, with Additions, and Improvements. IN TWO VOLUMES. THE FIRST VOLUME. LONDON: Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY, at Tully's Head in Pall-mall. G EORGE the Second, by the Grace of God, King of Great Brirain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all whom thefe Prefents fhall come, Greeting. Whereas Our Trufty and Well-Beloved Robert Dodfley Bookfeller, bas by his Petition humbly reprefented unto Us, that he is now printing a Practical Book for the Ufe of Schools in Two Volumes Octavo, illuftrated with Maps and useful Cuts, entituled, The PRECEPTOR, containing a General COURSE of EDUCATION, wherein the firft Principles of POLITE LEARNING are laid down, in a way moft fuitable for trying the Genius, and advancing the Inftruction of Youth, in twelve Parts: Firft, on Reading, Speaking, and Writing Letters; Second, on Geometry; Third, on Geography and Altronomy; Fourth, on Chronology and Hiftory; Fifth, on Rhetoric and Poetry; Sixth, on Drawing; Seventh, on Logic; Eighth, on Natural Hiftory; Ninth, on Ethics or Morality; Tenth, on Trade and Commerce; Eleventh, on Laws and Government; Twelfth, on Human Life and Manners: That the Petitioner has been at great Expence and Trouble in procuring the feveral Parts of the faid Work, to be executed by Perfons qualified to do them in the beft manner, and the fole Right and Title to the Copy of the fame being vefted in the Petitioner. Wherefore be bas moft bumbly prayed Us to grant him Our Royal Privilege and Licence for the fole printing, publishing and vending of the faid Work for the Term of Fourteen Years. We being willing to give all due Encouragement to a Work that Seems to merit particular Regard, as it promifes to be of great Ufe in that important Point, the EDUCATION of YOUTH, are graciously_pleased to condefcend to bis Requeft. And we do therefore by thefe Prefents, fo far as may be agreeable to the Statute in that behalf made and provided, grant unto him the faid Robert Dodfley, his Executors, Adminiftrators and Affigns, Our Licence for the fole printing and publishing of the faid Work, for the Term of Fourteen Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, ftrictly forbidding all Our Subjects within Our Kingdoms and Dominions to reprint, or abridge the fame, either in the like, or any Size or Manner whatsoever, or to import, buy, vend, utter or diftribute any Copies thereof, reprinted beyond the Seas, during the aforefaid Term of Fourteen Years, without the Confent or Approbation of the faid Robert Dodfley, bis Executors, Adminiftrators and Aligns, under their Hands and Seals first had and obtained, as they will answer the contrary at their Peril; whereof the Commiffioners, and other Officers of our Customs, the Mafter, Warden, and Company of Stationers, are to take Notice, that due Obedience may be rendered to Our Pleafure herein declared. Given at our Court at St. James's the Fourth Day of February 174, in the Twenty-firft Year of our Reign. By His Majefty's Command. CHESTERFIELD. To His ROYAL HIGHNESS' Prince GEORGE. SIR, 1 Beg Leave to approach Your and Polite Learning. And I humbly truft, the Importance of the Precepts which I prefume at the fame Time to lay before your HIGHNESS, will atone for the Impropriety of their coming from me. |