Excerpt from The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres, or an Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Physics, &C, Vol. 1: With Reflections on Taste, and Instructions With Regard to the Eloquence of the Pulpit, the Bar, and the Stage H E work we here prefint the Engli/h reader, has al ready acquired [a great a reputation all over Europe, that it would perhaps be impertinent to attempt a pane gyric of it in this place. For the inc/t learned and ingeni ous Journalifis have honoured it with the highdt and majt jufl encomiums in their, periodical pieces, and applauded it 'as one of the completing/t treatifes ever publifhed on the [ub jett' of polite literature. Nor have particular writers of the greatejl fame, and the jincjtl ta/ie, been wanting in their praifes of it, and to name only two of dilfi'renz' na tions the late Bifloop Atterbury, who/h hnowledge in the various topics here treated of, is univerfally allowed, gives it the highcfi charati'er in a letter he flint to the au thor, on receiving this work from him 3 and the celebrated Mr. De Voltaire, though he has taken upon him to exclude a great number of eminent writers of his own country from his Temple of Tafte, has yet given our author a very honourable place in it. In jhort, were we to tranfcribe all the elogiums which have been made on this compofition, we jhould write a volume iii/lead of a preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.