A BRIEF EXPOSITION OF THE PRINCIPLE ON WHICH IT IS FOUNDED;
AND A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ITS RISE, PROGRESS, AND RESULTS.

BY THE REV. ANDREW BELL, D.D. LL. D.
F. As. S.: F. R. S. ED.: PREBENDARY OF WESTMINSTER; AND MASTER OF
SHERBURN HOSPITAL, DURHAM.

"Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people,
rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens."-
EXODUS Xviii. 25.

"Sicut firmiores in literis profectus alit æmulatio: ita incipientibus atque adhuc
teneris, condiscipulorum quam præceptoris, jucundior, hoc ipso quod facilior,
imitatio est."-QUIN.

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