Hew Morrison Collection > Galick and English vocabulary, with an appendix of the terms of divinity in the said language

DEDICATION. v
7H£ Mru^ion of the Youth in the Englifh Lan-
gfuige^ is thought necejjary to promote the charitable Pur-
pofe of this Society, and to make thefc, who can [peak
onlyGd.\^Cy more ufe fid Members in the Commonwealth ;
and it is certain, that if this were to be carried on-, by teach-
ing froin Books intirely Englifh, without any Mixture of
the Mother-'Tongue, it would not be fo fpeedily got done.
I know, that by your Orders, we your Schoolmajlers
are not to carry our Scholars forward in Reading, but as
they underfi and what they read in Englifli, and mojlrea-
fonable it is -, but then, ^tis a great Task both to Mader
and Scholars, and takes long ^ime -, whereas, we can
oblige our Scholars to get thefe Vocables by Heart, as is
done in Latin Schools, which will very much further
them in their Progrefs, and alfo fpread the Englifh
Language thro* the Country, and make thefe young Ones
more ufeful the fooner, as Servants at Home, and alfo
when they come Abroad to the Lowlands, andbe imployed
in the Navy, or Army, or in any other Service in the
Commonwealth.
IT is well known, that the Method of teaching any
Language by Books, not written in Peop'les own Lan-
guage, has been very uneafy to Youth, and difcouraging
to their Endeavours, in the Profecution of their Studies ;
whereas a regular Vocables in both Languages, put in
their Hand, is a great Help, not only to the Mafters
and the Scholars themfehes, but alfo to thefe with whom
th^ converfe, and it makes the Englifh Language to
fpread the more quickly.
I therefore frefume fo far, as to offer the following
Galic Englifh Vocabulary to your Ircte^ion, and the
rather, that fuch an Undertaking being frji fuggefted in
your Honourable Society itfelf, and by you recommended
to the then Presbytery of Lorn, noiv that o/Mull, %uho
, laid it on tne to prepare fuch a Vocables /6»r the Ufe of
your Schools, which is certainly one good Mean to carry