But since those days, its progress has been immense.

It has traversed the whole kingdom.

It has got into almost all the families of rank and fortune.

Many of the middle classes, in imitation of the higher, have received it; and, as it has undergone a revolution in the extent, so it has undergone another in the object of its practice.

It is learned now, not as a source of occasional recreation, but as a complicated science, where perfection is insisted upon to make it worthy of pursuit.