AN ESSAY ON EDUCATION; to which are particularly considered the…

AN ESSAY ON EDUCATION; to which are particularly considered the Merits and Defects of the Discipline and Instruction in our Academies. By the Rev. William Barrow, LL.D & F.A.S. Author of the Bampton Lecture for 1799, and late Master of the Academy, Soho-Square, London. In two volumes. by BARROW, Rev. William. < >
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AN ESSAY ON EDUCATION; to which are particularly considered the Merits and Defects of the Discipline and Instruction in our Academies. By the Rev. William Barrow, LL.D & F.A.S. Author of the Bampton Lecture for 1799, and late Master of the Academy, Soho-Square, London. In two volumes.

London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, No 62, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1802. Vol. I: xx, 314 pages. Vol. II: iv, 333, [1 blank], [1 ad’] pages. Original calf, sometime neatly re-backed. 12mo. First edition. Bookplates of Swansea Training College. Boards worn at corners and edges; else a very good set. Barrow’s preface references the theories of Locke, Rousseau, the Edgeworths, and Knox. There are chapters on the discipline and instruction of infants, the comparative advantages of public and private education, the choice of a school, grammars, the study of the English language, and the art of teaching.

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