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 variety of ways ſubſervient to amuſement and pleaſure; it cannot appear ſubſervient if even young perſons are frequently infected with a ſordid thirſt of gain, and early learn to ſacrifice their tender affections, and even their generous virtues on the altar of wealth. Let it not then be thought unneceſſary or unſeaſonable, if I earneſtly exhort you, my dear ſon, who are as yet unhaknied in the ways of the world, to beware leſt you be ſeduced from your ſimplicity, and robbed of your integrity by the reducing attractions of wealth.

To theſe cautions it is neceſſary to add. Beware of indulging a habit of indolence. Notwithſtanding that natural vigour and activity which ſo peculiarly diſtinguiſhes the period of youth, that it might almost ſeem to ſupercede the neceſſity of this caution, it is found in fact that many young perſons, either through ſome miſmanagement in their education or through a natural ſluggiſhneſs of diſpoſition, fall into an invicible [sic] habit of indolence Thoſe who are conſcious of any propenſities of this kind, cannot be too careful not to indulge them; for when once the tone of the mind is relaxed by ſloth it is ſcarcely poſſible to reſtore it. On the moſt favourable ſuppoſition which can be madet it muſt be expected that a young man to whom idolence is ſo far become habitual, that he finds a pleaſure in idle ſauntering or total