Though at the time of my removal to Warrington I had no particular fondness for the studies relating to my profession then, I applied to them with great assiduity; and besides composing courses of _Lectures on the theory of Language_, and on _Oratory and Criticism_, on which my predecessor had lectured, I introduced lectures on _history and general policy_, on the _laws and constitutions of England_, and on the _history of England_. This I did in consequence of observing that, though most of our pupils were young men designed for situations in civil and active life, every article in the plan of their education was adapted to the learned professions. In order to recommend such studies as I introduced, I composed an _essay on a course of liberal education for civil and active life_, with _syllabuses_ of my three new courses of lectures; and Dr. Brown having just then published a plan of education, in which he recommended it to be undertaken by the state, I added some _remarks on his treatise_, shewing how inimical it was to liberty, and the natural rights of parents. This leading me to consider the subject of civil and political liberty, I published my thoughts on it, in an _essay on government_, which in a second edition I much enlarged, including in it what I wrote in answer to Dr. Balguy, on church authority, as well as my animadversions on Dr. Brown. My _Lectures on the theory of language and universal grammar_ were printed for the use of the students, but they were not published. Those on _Oratory and Criticism_ I published when I was with Lord Shelburne, and those on _History and general policy_ are now printed, and about to be published.[7] [7] This work has been reprinted in Philadelphia with additions, particularly of a chapter on the government of the United States. Finding no public exercises at Warrington, I introduced them there, so that afterwards every Saturday the tutors, all the students, and often strangers, were assembled to hear English and Latin compositions, and sometimes to hear the delivery of speeches, and the exhibition of scenes in plays. It was my province to teach elocution, and also Logic, and Hebrew. The first of these I retained; but after a year or two I exchanged the two last articles with Dr. Aikin for the civil law, and one year I gave a course of lectures in anatomy.