The Survey of Cornwall
By Richard Carey
18 Apr, 2019
Brief Extract...Learning is not only useful but necessary in all Conditions and States of Life; but I will presume to say, that it is more particularly so to all Gentlemen, who are allotted to live in the Country. And if they cannot pass their leisur
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Brief Extract...Learning is not only useful but necessary in all Conditions and States of Life; but I will presume to say, that it is more particularly so to all Gentlemen, who are allotted to live in the Country. And if they cannot pass their leisure Hours in reading, or cultivating Arts and Sciences, they will spend that time in such things as must be detrimental to their Families, and, in the end, fatal to their own Persons. Our Author could never fall into those Inconveniences: He loved Letters, and not only made them subservient to his own Entertainment but sometimes useful to the Publick. Less