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Rh is the eaon of activity, and hould not be lot in litlenes. Knowledge ought to be acquired, a laudable ambition encouraged; and even the errors of paion may produce ueful experience, expand the faculties, and teach them to know their own hearts. The mot hining abilities, and the mot amiable dipoitions of the mind, require culture, and a proper ituation, not only to ripen and improve them, but to guard them against the perverions of vice, and the contagious influence of bad examples. THE