Th 6001 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOU DATIONS. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the eighth day of October, A. D. 1829, and in the fiftyfourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: Selections from the Writings of Fenelon. With a Memoir of his Life. By a Lady. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged.' In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled 'An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprieters of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; &nd also to ar act, extitled An act supplementary to an act, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, ungraving, en etching historical and other prints.' JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. EXAMINER PRESS-SCHOOL STREET. PREFACE. No apology is necessary for giving anything to the Such were the ele public from the pen of Fenelon. vation and liberality of his spirit, that it soared above party, to diffuse itself over all the interests of humanity. He was in spirit and in truth a Christian; a lover of God and man. His pure and expansive thoughts could not in their nature be confined to any sect or country. It is true that he was not above all the prejudices and influences of education. Who is? But his was one of those pure and beneficent spirits, which from their natures belong to the whole of mankind. It is not contended that he has done as much as some others to enlarge the limits of human science. His political maxims were just and pure, and they were fearlessly promulgated at the expense of his highest temporal interests; and it is scarcely worth consideration, whether he were as well acquainted with all the rules of political economy, as others, whose residence and situation gave them greater |