COXE’s TRAVELS IN RUSSIA.
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item Injlitutlmes ; and experimental philofophy from Kruger’s Compendium. 4. Onancient and modern hiflory. 5, Introduction to the knowledge of moral philofophy,from Bi'elfield’s Inflitutes. 6. On clinic medicine, or the remedies ufed by ancientand modern phyficians, from Vogel’s Compendium. 7. On the pandeCts , from theCompendium of Heineccius , and a comparifon between the Roman and Ruffian law;eight hours a week. Profeffor Defaitfky, who reads this-leClure, teaches alfo the Eng-lifh language from a Grammar compiled by himfelf; four hours a week. 8. Logicand metaphyfics from Baumeifter’s logic, eight hours ; and four geometry and trigo-nometry, from Weidler. 9. On phyfic under the following heads ; pathology, diete-tics, and therapeutics, from Ludwig’s Compendium. 10. On botany, after the fyfteniof Linnteus. 11. Anatomy from Ludwig. 12. On the etymology, fyntax, andftyle of the French tongue; eight hours. 13. Etymology, fyntax, and flyle-of theGerman .
Befide the univerfity, there are two gymnafta, or feminaries, for the education ofyouth, endowed alfo by Elizabeth, in which are taught divinity, claffics, philofophy,the Greek, Latin, Ruffian, German, French, Italian , and Tartar languages; hiflory,geography, mathematics, algebra, architecture, fortification, artillery, drawing andpainting, mufic, fencing, dancing, reading, and writing. There are twenty-three pro-feffors; amongft thefe, the Syllabus informed me, that Mr. Alexief teaches divinitytwo hours in the week. Mr. Matthtei, profeffor and reCtor of both feminaries, ex-plains forne of Cicero’s Orations and feleCt Epiftles, Libanius ’s Letters, Ernefti’s ora-torical Effays, Xenophon ’s Anabafis , teaches the Roman antiquities from Burman’sCompendium, and continues his ufual Latin exercifes upon oratory. Mr. Sinkovlki,every morning from feven to nine, treats of the principles of rhetoric, particularly con-cerning the Periodologia, both as to theory and practice, from Burgius’s Elementa Ora-torio. ; explains Caffar’s Commentaries and Judin; employs his fcholars in Latin andRuffian tranflations, and in the etymology and fyntax of the Greek tongue; reads Plu-tarch srspi rtruxrc ; and, from nine to twelve on Mondays, Wednefdays, and Satur-days, Ovid ’s Metamorphofis, and connefts mythology with ancient hiflory and geo-graphy. Mr. Tffierbotaref, extraordinary profeffor of logic and morality, and under-librarian to the univerfity, four hours in the week, comments upon Heineccii elementaphilofoph'us rationalis et moralis, as well in the original Latin , as in the Ruffian * tranfla-tion, for the benefit of thofe who are unacquainted with the Latin tongue. Mr. Ur-banfki gives inflruCtions in rhetoric from the Compendium of Burgius, both in theoryand practice. Mr. Holberftof explains Count Teffin’s Letters to a young Prince f.
The account of the Greek manuferipts in the library of the Holy Synod at Mofcow,prefented to me by the director, bore this title: “ Notitia codicum manvjcriptorumGraecorum Bibliothecarwn Mofquenfium JanftiJJimae fynodi Ecclefiae orthodoxae Graeco -BuJJicae, cum •variis anecdotis, tabulis aene'ts ct indicibus locuplctiffimis. Edidit ChrifiianusFredericus Matthaei, Gymnajiorum Univerjiiatis Mofquenjts Reclor. ' Mofquae , typis Uni-‘verfitatis, Anno 1776,” folio. The author is Chridian Frederic Matthasi, a learnedGerman , who was educated at Leipfic under the celebrated Ernefti, and had alreadydifplayed his erudition by feveral excellent editions of the claffics. Being drawn toMofcow by the liberality of the Emprefs, he was appointed a profeffor of this univerfity.Soon after his arrival, he turned his attention to the date of Greek literature, and ex-
* lis pnecipue, qui ling-use Latinx fnnt ignari, nec fua ftudia academiea ;n univerfitalc ulterius profequi-pofTunt.
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