USEFUL VERSUS USELESS LEARNING

A single and practical plan for the formation of a complete and useful library and *respository* of *universal* literary knowledge. The design which I propose in the following few lines, is one which I should imagine nearly all the more learned and literary of your readers would *wish* to see *already in existence* and when I show that it might be effected *with very little trouble and expense* (indeed *no* trouble but such as would be a *pleasure* to those interested in the work), and that the greatest advantage would follow from it,—I hope that it may meet with favourable consideration from…