le
Crichton--could claim an intimacy with them, embracing, as they often
did, the whole circle of human knowledge. 'Tis true, the vanity of the
pedagogue had full scope in these advertisements, as there was none to
bring him to an account, except some rival, who could only attack him
on those practical subjects which were known to both. Independently of
this, there was a good-natured collusion between them on those points
which were beyond their knowledge, inasmuch as they were not practical
but speculative, and by no means involved their character or personal
interests. On the next Sunday, therefore, after Mat's establishment at
Findrainore, you might see a circle of the peasantry assembled at the
chapel door, perusing, with suitable reverence and admiration on their
faces, the following advertisement; or, perhaps, Mat himself, with a
learned, consequential air, in the act of "expounding" it to them.

"Mr. Matthew Kavanagh, Philomath and' Professor of the Learned
Languages, begs leave to inform the Inhabitants of Findramore and' its
vicinity, that he lectures on the following branches of Education, in
his Seminary at the above-recited place:--

"Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, upon altogether new
principles, hitherto undiscovered by any excepting himself, and for
which he expects a Patent from Trinity College, Dublin; or, at any
rate, from Squire Johnston, Esq., who paternizes many of the pupils;
Book-keeping, by single and double entry--Geometry, Trigonometry,
Stereometry, Mensuration, Navigation, Guaging, Surveying, Dialling,
Astronomy, Astrology, Austerity, Fluxions, Geography, ancient and
modern--Maps, the Projection of the Sphere--Algebra, the Use of the
Globes, Natural and Moral Philosophy, Pneumatics, Optics, Dioptics,
Catroptics, Hydraulics, Erostatics, Geology, Glorification, Divinity,
Mythology, Medicinality, Physic, by theory only, Metaphysics
practically, Chemistry, Electricity, Galvanism, Mechanics, Antiquities,
Agriculture, Ventilation, Explosion, etc.

"In Classics--Grammar, Cordery, AEsop's Fables, Erasmus' Colloquies,
Cornelius Nepos, Phaedrus, Valerius Maximus, Justin, Ovid, Sallust,
Virgil, Horace, Juvenal, Persius, Terence, Tully's Offices, Cicero,
Manouverius Turgidus, Esculapius, Rogerius, Satanus Nigrus, Quinctilian,
Livy, Thomas Aquinas, Cornelius Agrippa, and Cholera Morbus.

"Greek Grammar, Greek Testament, Lucian, Homer, Sophocles, AEschylus,
Thucydides, Aristophanes, Xenophon