Lectures on History, and General Policy, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Is Prefixed, an Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life; And ... The Whole Corrected, Improved, and Enlarge - Softcover

Joseph Priestley

 
9780243552016: Lectures on History, and General Policy, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Is Prefixed, an Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life; And ... The Whole Corrected, Improved, and Enlarge

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Excerpt from Lectures on History, and General Policy, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Is Prefixed, an Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life; And an Additional Lecture on the Constitution of the United States; The Whole Corrected, Improved, and Enlarged With a Chart of History and a Chart of Biography

AT the requeft of many of my former pupils, I now publilh the heads of the Ledure: on Hirtory and general Policy, which I compofed for their uf'e when I was tutor at Warrington, and which I promifcd to do when I publifhed my Ejby on the firrt Princzloler of Government. I prefix to them an Ejay on a Cour/e of liberal Education fir civil and Mice life, which has been long out of print, and which will no more accompany my mi/z'ellaneour obfa'vationr relating to Education. It will be very evident that it has a much nearer connexion with thcfe lettures, which were compofed in purfuance of the ideas which I have there enlarged upon. The following circum~ fiance gave birth to them both.

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