TESTIMONIALS. From Rev. Peter Bullions, D.D., Professor of Ancient Languages in Albany Academy, and author of a series of Grammars and Classical Works. BOYD'S MORAL PHILOSOPHY. The Rev. James R. Boyd, Principal of the Jefferson County Institute, and author of a work on Rhetoric already well received, has conferred another important benefit on the cause of sound learning by the preparation of this book. In no branch of education, perhaps, was a good textbook for schools more needed than in this. The work of Paley, though possessing many excellences, is acknowledged to be not only defective, but, on some important principles, radically unsound; while that of Wayland, greatly defective in respect of illustration, is for that reason suited only to those teachers who have the time and the ability necessary to supply these orally in the time of teaching. Mr. Boyd proposes to remedy these evils, and, by a free and judicious, but not servile use of the ample materials to be found in standard writers on this subject at home and abroad, to furnish, on a solid basis, a work, the study of which shall serve not only to cultivate the intellectual powers, but "to mend the heart." For such a task Mr. Boyd is well qualified by his talents and education, and still more by his long experience as a successful instructor, and ĺ have no doubt his work will prove an important auxiliary, both to teachers and students, in this branch of study. From J. N. Wyckoff, D.D., Pastor of the Second Dutch Church, Albany, and Trustee of the Albany Male and Female Academies. Mr. Boyd has done me the favor to submit to my inspection the plan or synopsis of a work on Moral Philosophy, compiled from all the best authors extant, amplified by his own reflection and study, after years of review in the duties of an instructor, and particularly adapted to the necessities of those who require instruction in the science. Strongly sympathizing in the difficulties this work is intended to obviate, I hail it as most opportune, and judge it to be well adapted in the details of its plan, by the absence of technical phraseology and by other simplifications, to the intended purpose. J. N. WYCKOFF, Pastor of the Second Dutch Church, Albany. TESTIMONIALS. From T. Romeyn Beck, LL.D., Principal of the Albany Academy. Albany, August 19, 1846. The Rev. James R. Boyd has read to me the preface of a work on Moral Philosophy, which he is about publishing for the use of academies and common schools, and has also given me an account of its contents. From my previous acquaintance with the literary qualifications of Mr. Boyd, and with the work on Rhetoric of which he is the author, I have no doubt that the present one will be well executed, and that it will be worthy of introduction in our schools and other institutions of learning. I also entertain the idea that a work on the plan of Mr. Boyd's is needed for the purposes of instruction. T. ROMEYN BECK. From Rev. J. N. Campbell, D.D., Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Albany, and Trustee of Albany Male and Female Academies. Albany, August 14, 1846 It will not be questioned, I suppose, by any one, that such a work as Rev. Mr. Boyd proposes to publish is very greatly needed for the use of our high-schools and academies. The plan of the work, so far as I have been able to examine it, appears to me to be well arranged and adapted to the end he has in view; and from what I know of Mr. Boyd, I judge that he is quite competent to execute it. J. N. CAMPbell. From S. S. Randall, Esq., Deputy Superintendent of Common Schools, Editor of the District-School Journal, &c. Albany, August 17, 1846. Having been favored with a perusal of the introduction to, and table of contents of, an elementary treatise on Moral Philosophy, proposed to be published by J. R. Boyd, A.M., Principal of Jefferson County Institute, I am free to express my general approbation of the plan and design of the work, and my conviction that it is well calculated to fill that place in the course of elementary instruction in our academies and other institutions of learning for which it is intended by the author. In a work of this description, embracing within its range the entire field of Christian ethics, and social as well as individual morality, it is next to impossible to avoid an occasional excursion upon debatable and controverted ground; but I am not aware that the present work is liable to more serious objections on this ground than most of its predecessors in this important branch of mental and moral science; and the attractive, discriminating, and practical manner in which the cardinal virtues of humanity are recommended and enforced throughout the greater portion of the work amply compensate, in my judgment, for any defects which may be supposed to arise from the temperate assertion and maintenance of a few principles upon which an honest difference of opinion prevails in our communities. The general scope and tenor of the work is eminently calculated to expand, elevate, and purify the affections and the heart-to enlighten and strengthen the intellect, and diffuse among the rising generation the seeds of truth, goodness, and virtue. S. S. RANDALL, Dep. Supt. of Common Schools, Ed. Dist. School Journal, &c. TESTIMONIALS. From L. S. Parsons, Esq., Principal of Albany Female Academy. Female Academy, Albany, August 17, 1846. DEAR SIR, Having examined with some care the manuscript sheets submitted to me, giving the table of contents and design of your new work, entitled "Eclectic Moral Philosophy," I am happy to say that I am much pleased with the matter and manner of arrangement. The authors from whom you have principally drawn are, undoubtedly, the most safe and interesting of all those who have written on moral subjects. 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