LESSONS YOUNG PRINCE - INTRODUCTION - E V E R Y Writer wifhes to have iorneth ng underfiood, though he may feldom fuggefi the truth, refpeaing hirnfelf. That I am approaching the extremity of life, may be credited, from my garrulity, from a general recurrence to diitant events, as authorities, and from an affeeation of prophecy or prediction. - That I am diiinterefied, will not be fuppofed, at a time when the pofibility of difinterefiedneis is diiputed. Concealing my name, even even from the Printer and Publiiher laying in difcriminately before the exalted Perfonage I addrefi, the truths that occur to me and cenfu- ring equally his friends and opponents it will be difficult, for it is difficult to myklf, to imagine any intereits aauating my mind, beiides thofe of a public nature. That I have not been a fpeaator only of the incidents of this age, every man of bufinefi will difcern by internal evidence-That I am not an Author by. profeffion, will be perceived by the loweit retainer of periodical criticih-My great objeQ is, to roufe latent principles in a mind I think excellent, which has been negleaed, or mifled with defign. If I fucceed, I mall filently carry the fatisfaaion to the tomb that awaits me - If I fail, my laR will only kare the fate of fome former efforts-and their inefficacy will reconcile me to their oblivion. CON LESSON I. Page 1 i 1 - 1 c E , as i, L Jccs, I LESSON IT. I c Stll rLCf c . i i i , f , - - - - - - - - - - I I LESSON TT. , - , - - - - - - - - - - 39 LES, ON VI. , , , - - I - - - - - - - - - - - 49 LES CONTENTS. - --. .-A LESSON 1 11. The .. 4n et- cnn Rewolutlnr, - - - - - - - - - 58 LESS ON 17111. . o Jitutin q rz f - F r n n c , - - - - - - - - - - 7 I LESSON X. MorIr qf- flrdr, ilr a g n cl prqfiting bj J P B -. u rkrs Rej e fiolzs on bc lrrrr Rr-c, qo utios in fi-once, . . . . n oo S S O N S TO A YOUNG PRINCE. LESSON L I E W OF T E E P RINCES EDUCATION, AND ITS EFFECTS. Priwatas fpes agitantes, fie publira cura. Tacr DE ME T RI US Phalereus advifed Ptolomy to itudy books becaufe things might be written in them, which his friends dared not advife. Your Royal Highnefs is refpe tfully recjueited to confider the preient feaion as an hifiorical pi ure, in which you are the principal figure. B It It is the reproach of the Englik education, that ornamental objeas are preferred to thofe of utility I and an invariable mode of forming a fcholar is applied to all the purpofes of life. The preceptors of your Royal Highnefs are - hot anfwerable for the defe s of a plan, in the formation of which they were . not co ulted. They may be iu ciently jdified by your proficiency in the belles lettres, and in the general accompliihrnents of a gentleman. In moral arringenients, atid in prudential prepara-. tions for the firfi imprefions of iociety, the royal iyltem was extremely defeaive. The education of the King had been monafiic and the Queen, bred in-the economy of a little court, introduced a f p e cies of penury, as unfavourable to the minds, as it may be advantageous to the private fortunes of the royal children...