EDUCATION,
At the English Seminary
The Subscriber respectfully informs the Public, that he has opened an Academy 10 miles from Raleigh, the University Road, where will be taught "Writing, Reading and Speaking—English Grammar with accuracy—Modern Pronunciation according to the best standard—to study the English Language, the import and proper application of good Terms—Ancient and Natural History—Arithmetic, Geometry, Rhetoric, Logic, Moral Philosophy, Geography, and the use of the Globes. Students will particularly be taught to read and speak with propriety, observing a proper Accent, Emphasis and Cadence. Strict attention will be paid to Orthography. The best Books will be introduced, and and Classes so arranged as to facilitate teaching and excite emulation amongst the Students. * * *
The Subscriber has declined teaching the Latin or Greek Languages, and will appropriate his whole time to English alone, and the Sciences. That he has received a liberal education, is inured to the labours of teaching, and has expeditiously prepared for College young Gentlemen, of whom many are now shining in the most exalted and conspicuous stations both in Europe and America, are certified by characters of Respectability and Science. He hopes he knows how to appreciate his time, is duly impressed with the very great importance of his trust, pledges himself that interest, honor and duty will be a stimulus to exertion * * *
Terms $6 per quarter, payment to be made at the end of the quarter. If the time spent in teaching, and the great progress made in a short time be considered, Terms are made very low, in order to encourage those Parents who do not justly estimate a good English Education.
Aug. 18. John Henry Gault.
—Raleigh Register, August 20, 1807.
[* * * indicate parts of above like the previous advertisement.]
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
