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Descriptions of Language Tuition and Futility of Fate
The article discusses child language education, noting six children trained with a yearly cost under a thousand pounds and outlining paths to service or reward in France. It then argues against fortune telling, claiming fate governs events and predicting the impracticality and misery of foreknowledge. It cites Priam, Pompey, Caesar and a Russian emperor as examples of unpredictable fate and warns against the folly of attempting prophecy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Priam
Pompey
Casar
Newgate
Russia
Europa
Fuch & Fenvel
London
Newfoundland
Havannah
Madrid
Great Britain
Cadiz
Ferrol
Breslau
Prussia
Bogendorff
Ditmansdorff
Schweidnitz
Fradenzein
de Thadden
de Gablentz
de Mollendorff
de Wiedt
Guasco
Count Dayn
Branau
Hungary
Leitmansdorff
Burkersdorff
Cleves
Rees
Wezel
Dufteldorp
Gueldres
D’ Auvat
Westphalia
Lipstadt
Munster
Minden
Flanders
Lower Rhine
Ferdinand
Hesse
Hague
Petersburg
Portugal
Count de Lippe Buckeburgh