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THE

ELEMENT S

OF

USEFUL KNOWLEDGE:

Comprehending, among other interefting Particulars,

SHORT SYSTEMS OF

ASTRONOMY, MYTHOLOGY, CHRONOLOGY,
AND RHETORIC;

WITH A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE

TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI.

AND OF

THE LATE TRANSACTIONS IN FRANCE.

To be read in Turns with such approved Selections as are generally
ufed in Schools; and to be chiefly committed to Memory.

BY THE REV. J. ADAMS, A. M.

AUTHOR OF THE ELEMENTS OF READING AND LECTIONES

SELECTE.

Sweet is the Tafk to rear the tender Mind,
And teach the young Idea how to shoot.

The taking a tafte of every Sort of Knowledge is neceffary to form
the Mind, and is the only Way to give the Understanding its due
Improvement to the full Extent of its Capacity.
LOCKE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR B. LAW AND SON, AVE-MARIA-LANE,

- 1793.

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ANTIQUARIAN

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ARTISEM

WORCEST World, general know

ledge is a great recommendation. It gives mankind a favourable opinion of the understanding of those who poffefs it, and is the fource of much fatisfaction. To lay the foundation of such knowledge, in early youth, is therefore, highly neceffary, as well as to take every future opportunity of raising the superstructure.

To promote the culture of the mind is the defign of the following performance; and the author flatters himself, that the perufal of it will give young people a true relish for useful and polite literature. Perhaps, no book of the fame fize, contains a greater variety of important information to youth of both sexes.

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