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    members of the - council" is censured , by Capt . !?• ir * thq true spirit of a British ^ sailor .. He complains , that u the majority : of them had no idea of national dignity . " ;

    At Bissao ,, Capt . B . experienced the generosity and hospitality which have so eminently distinguished the character of the honorable merchant in all ages and countries * 4 < f The half savage conduct of the Governor , * ' he says , ** was coil-Irasted by that ofM . de Sylva Cordoza , a principal merchant of Bissao ,

    in whose house the preceding altercation had taken place \ who , when the long boat was gone * begged I would consider his liouse as my own . He not paly then , but ever after treated me with great kindness and friendship , and to him I was indebted for marry comforts durijig uxy residence on the island of Bulama , " T [ To be continued . ]

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    The present exceed former times in nothing , perhaps , &s > much as in the methods of education , not simply because those methods lead more directly to the fend proposed , but ftfecause also they are in themselv . es pleasant and instructive . * The makers of school-books have at length discovered that childre n

    article II . Exercises for the Mctiriory and Understanding , with 4 Series of Examinations . By Thomas and fffh n Holland . Eourtjk Edition , consisting of Fables and Narratives , Selections oh Natural and Civil History ^ with Moral and Religious Extracts ^ in Prose and Verse * I 2 mo . pp . 432 * Long ma a and Co . 5 s . 6 d . bound . 1805 .

    are , in some future day , to be men , and that the best way of reaching their understandings is through their affections . The improvements that have of late been made ip the elementary books of our country are highly creditably to its good sense ,

    taste , and philosophy , and arq an earnest of the ultimate prevalence and perfection of knowledge . In the title of ths work before us , those improvements are well discriminated . Formerly , books that were put into the hands of children were * Vexercises for the an ^ niory" merely ; now , they are . ^ exer-1

    cises for the memory and understanding . * No book that we have seen answers the purpose of a " Header" or a Speaker , " so well as this under review . The

    selections are made with great judgment , and with a laudable attention to variety , and contain a great body of useful knowr ledge and elegant writing . We esteem it an advantage that some of the most familiar pieces in prose are printed " without any other steps than the periods . " This is unquestionably the b ^ sf tvay of initiating children into the art of punctuaUpiau The

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    Holland ? s Exercises ^ 211

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/43/