For the Nilmingtonian
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uThc cold Indifference ola friend, is more gra-
ting to my feelings, than his open ehmity.


81 know thy works that thou art neither cold
NOR hot So then, because thou art lukewarn,
and neither cold nor hot, will spuc thee out OF
~. ,,,ntb Rev.
These observations were forcibly revived
il nv mind, by the GOODNESS and forced re-
serve, observed BY some of our teachers and
hter.ti OF Wilmington, towards notice CIV
en- Of an adjourned meeting to take place on
Saturday evening last, for further exam
nation OF the principles and utility OF sys-
TEN Of grammar as taught by Mr.. James
Brown.


The alarm of fire, and calls to my busi-
ness, prevented me from attending Garner
than 8 O'clock; but Oh going into the room
with an expectation of finding a large con
course of people whom | had hoped might
be interested in the science, and not tlndng
single Individual there for whom q had un-
dcrstood) the meeting had been particularly
adjourned; left the room with unpleasant
sensations, without even taking seat a.
mongst those who were assembled. nave
since been informed that to those few disn-
tercsted persons who did attend, the princl-
pies and practical utility Of the system, were
very satisfactorily illustrated by his pupils.


1t is a fact too notorious to have escaped
the ears of those persons above alluded to-
that Mr.. Brown has succeeded III the ahor'
space of six weeks, by lessons u an hour
and half each day, in maNinG hs pupils
sufficiently acquant"a with Grammar, tt
parse and to correct the most complicated
and apparently well constructed sentence II
our language; or at least, to do 1t as eHpertl.
as the pupils, Of any other teacher, cam wh
have been taught in as many months by tn
old SYSTEM Those persons will probabl,
object to this fact, that Mr.. Browns pupil
devoted their whole attention during the ST.
weeks, to this study: we will grant tins TO
the sake of argument, though we have goo
reasons to believe this is not the case; hoy
much more preferable then must his syster
be when it has charms sufficient to SO engag
the attention of boys from their plays, an
young men from their occupations, that thei
whole attention is engaged in their gramma
zeal studies: say, how much more prefers
ble must Mr.. Browns be to the old system
which nothing but sternness and scverlt
can keep the pupils to; and then, their after
ton is not SO much engaged in the object
acquiring a knowledge of it, as in the avoit
ing of their preceptors frowns.


Two attempts have been made to ha,
these facts tested; but Which the advocat
q the old system haye caEefulfy ayoide