E PROFANIS SCRIPTORIBUS HISTORIE. QUIBUS ADMISTA SUNT VARIA HONESTE VIVENDI PRÆCEPTA, EX HSDEM SCRIPTORIBUS DEPROMPTA. NOVA EDITIO PRIORIBUS LONGE EMENDATIOR.. LONDINI: IMPENSIS G. G. ET J. ROBINSON, R. BALDWIN, F. ET. C. M. Brown, Printer, St. John's Square. PREFACE. THE Approbation with which the world has received my little Latin collection of felect ftories from the Old Teftament, has determined me to prefent it with a fecond collection from profane authors, together with fome of their moral precepts. My defign has been, in both, to put into the hands of children, and others that begin to learn the Latin tongue, fome little pieces, that might be eafy to understand, and at the fame time might improve their morals. No doubt can be made but that the Holy Scriptures afford us those advantages, which is the reafon probably, that has induced fo many mafters, both in a public and private character, to make their scholars read that collection. That this might, as far as poffible, merit the fame esteem, I thought it incumbent on not to lofe fight of those two objects, clearness me |