The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

LETTERS, TRACTS, \sfc^ 1^$Mr. Sheridan fliould excite our emulation.The partsof fcience we have mentioned before are abfolutelynecefTary ; this laft is alfo highly ufeful and highlyornamental.The plan. Sir, which we have laid before you, isneither chimerical nor difficult to be executed ; it iseafy, advantageous, necefTary, and not expenfive j and^we cannot fuffer ourfelves to fear but that our citywill immediately agree to it, or to fomething like itFor our own part, we have merely ftudied the honourand advantage of our fellow-citizens. We defireno commendation for having mentioned to feveralof them the great advantages of fuch an academy.If we are in the right, you will be able to judge bytliis Letter, which you are at liberty to ufe as youpleafe. There are no doubt others of our citizenswho are both able to form a plan that is more complete,and alfo to forward the execution of it; letthem have the whole praife, but let the thing be done,and done as foon as poffible.And we think ourfelves fure that it will be done,:when we confider the merit and vigilance of the honourablegentlemen who are our prefent magiitrates.One of them is iiluflrious in his own city, is wellknown at a great diftance, and has been long refpe£l:-ed by thofe in the highefl rank ; he had a college e-ducation, but foon fav/ the impropriety and defeclivenefsof it j and, by a flrength of judgment, a depthof penetration, and retentivenefs of memory peculiarto himfelf, he attained a knov/ledge of the laws andconilitution of his country, v/hich is feldom to Ijefound in profeffed lawyers : He has acquired fuch varietyof knowledge, moral, hiflorical, political, andcommercial, and is fo diftin£l and accurate upon everypoint, that few burgefles or others in the iflandcan pretend to excel him. What is propofed to betaught at the academy is but the rudiments of a fewof thefe parts, in each of which he is a mafter.