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Frailty of Life

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Account of a Snow-Storm,in Feb. 1802 DR.MITCHILL

Obfervations on Storms, c.

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DR. WATERHOUSE

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2. Kapacious Quadrupeds

3. Rapacious Birds

4. All Fifkes rapacious

BIBLE

194

ZOLLIKOFER

197

GOLDSMITH

203

SMELLIE

203

SEC. 1. Man the most rapacious of all animals

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5. Some animals make war with

their own Species

Advantages refulting from this mysterious inflitu

tion of rapine and destruction throughout almoft

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the whole of animated Nature

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I...

OR,

KNOWLEDGE BEFORE ORATORY.

SIN

Application.

INCE the days that are past are gone Behoveth? forever, and those that are to come

defer?

may not come to thee; it behoveth thee, O man, to employ the prefent time, without regretting. regretting the lofs of that which is paft, or too much depending on that which is to come. 2. This initant is thine; the next is in the womb of futurity, and thou knoweft not what it may bring forth. Whatfoever thou refolveft to do, do it quickly : defer not until evening what the morning may accomplish.

accomplife?

3. Idleness is the parent of want and of diligence. pain; but the labour of virtue bringeth forth

pleasure. The hand of diligence defeateth

want; profperity and fuccefs are the induf- defeateth.

trious man's attendants.

4. Who is he that hath acquired wealth, that hath rifen to power, that hath clothed himfelf with honer, that is fpoken of in the city with praife, and that standeth before the king in his council? Even he that hath fhut out idlenefs from his houfe; and hath faid unto floth-thou art my enemy.

rifen.

council.

idleness.

5. He rifeth up early, and lieth down late; early. he exercifeth his mind with contemplation, and his dody with action; and preferveth the health of both.

health.

6. The flothful man is a burden to himself; his hours hang heavy on his head; he loiter- loitereik. eth about; and knoweth not what he would

do. His days pafs away like the fhadow of

a cloud; he leaveth behind him no mark for leaveth. rememberance.

7. His body is difeafed for want of exer

eife; he wifheth for action, but hath not want.

power

Confused?

almond.

trouble.

riotous?

repentance.

defcend.

power to move. His mind is in darkness; his thoughts are confufed; he longeth for knowledge, but hath no application. He would eat of the almond, but hateth the trouble of breaking the shell.

8. His houfe is in diforder; his fervants are waftful and riotous; and he runneth on towards ruin; he feeth it with his eyes; he heareth it with his ears; he fhaketh his head, and wifheth; but hath no refolution; until ruin cometh upon him like a whirlwind; and fhame and repentance defcend with him to the grave.

Watebed.

I.

Addrefs to a Young Student.

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OUR parents have watched over your helpless infancy, and conducted you, capable? with many a pang, to an age at which your mind is capable of manly improvement.

folicitude?

expenfe. confirmed.

contracted?

debt., gratitude?

deficient? apparatus?

feel.

irkfome ?

2. Their folicitude ftill continues, and no trouble nor expenfe is fpared, in giving you all the inftructions and accomplishments which may enable you to a&t your part in life, as a man of polished fenfe and confirmed virtue.

3. You have then, already contracted a great debt of gratitude to them. You can pay it by no other method, but by using properly the advantages which their goodness has afforded you.

4. If your own endeavours are deficient, it is in vain that you have tutors, books, and all the external apparatus of literary purfuits.. You must love learning, if you would pof fefs it.

5. In order to love it, you must feel its delights; in order to feel its delights, you must apply to it, however irksome at firft, clofely, conftantly and for a confiderable time.

Enough.

voluntarily?

attached?

6. If you have refolution enough to do this, you cannot but love learning; for the mind always loves that to which it has been long, Readily, and voluntarily attached. Habits are formed, which render what was at first disagreeable, not only pleasant but neceffary. 7. Pleasant, indeed, are all the paths which literature? lead to polite and elegant literature. Yours then, is furely a lot particularly happy. Your Scope? education is of fuch a fort, that its principal

fcope is to prepare you to receive a refined principal. pleasure during your life.

8. Value duly the opportunities you enjoy, and which are denied to thousands of your fellow creatures. Without exemplary diligence you will make but a contemptible proficiency. You may, indeed, pafs thro the forms of fchools and univerfities; but you will bring nothing away from them of real value.

9. The proper fort and degree of diligence, you cannot poffefs, but by the efforts of your own refolution. Your inftructor may, indeed confine you within the walls of a school, a certain number of hours. He may place books before you, and compel you to fix your eyes upon them; bu: no authority can chain down your mind.

10. Your thoughts will efcape from every external reftraint, and, amidst the moft ferious lectures, may be ranging in the wild purfuits

of trifles or vice.

11. Rules, restraints, commands, and pun ishments, may, indeed, affift in ftrengthening your refolution; but without your own voluntary choice your diligence will not often conduce to your pleasure or advantage.

12. But the principal obitacle to your improvement, at school, is a perverfe ambition of being diftinguished as a boy of fpirit, in

exemplary.

contemptible.

proficiency?

univerfities?

efforts?

hours.

compel.

chain.

pursuits.

trifles.

diligence.

conduce?

obfacle?

perverse ?

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