The tenth. It would be a hard lesson, unsupported by religion, to teach poverty and sloth not to covet riches and ease.Uninstructed in the way of industry, and ignorant of morality or piety, they can never be expected to keep the tenth commandment.

Dr. Johnson observes," To do the best can seldom be the lot of man; it is sufficient if when opportunities are presented, to be ready to do good.-How little virtue could be practised if benificence were to wait always for the most proper objects, and the noblest occasions;-occasions that may never happen, and opportunities that may never be found."

"Ignorance

"Ignorance is most easily kept in subjection by enlightening the mind with truth.-Men left wholly to their appetites and their instincts, with little sense of moral or religious obligations, and with very faint distinctions of right and wrong, can never be safely employed or confidentially trusted. They can be honest only by obstinacy, and diligent only by compulsion or caprice; some instruction, therefore, is necessary, and much, perhaps, may be dangerous.”

Where much is given much will be required, suffer, therefore, the children of wretchedness to pick up the crumbs that fall from your table, or rather, to speak plainly, to be taught as far as possible the paths of piety and knowledge; so that at the great day of account ye may render up the talents entrusted to you with their just and proper interest,-and, in return, receive

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receive the approbation promised in the Holy Gospel: Well done, thou good. and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

ON

ON READING AND STUDY IN

GENERAL.

BY reading we become

acquainted with the affairs, actions, and thoughts both of the living and the dead, in the most remote nations, and in the most distant ages. We transfer to ourselves, as it were, the knowledge and improvement of the most learned men, and the wisest and best of mankind.

Another advantage of reading is, that if not satisfied at the first perusal, we may return to the study, and consult the page

in the quiet of our chamber, and meditate on its merits; for it is by meditation only that we draw various inferences, and establish in our minds the general principles of knowledge, and form our judgment of the truth or falshood, strength or weakness ́ of what others advance or write.

Another advantage of study is, that we may gain not only knowledge but amusement, and momentarily be adding to our intellectual treasure, except only while we. sleep; and even then remembrance will often retrace some subjects that have em ployed us during the day..

A great assistance in study is a learned. friend, to whom we can occasionally apply. to explain what may appear obscure to us in the author we are perusing; for instructive conversation unfolds the hidden treasures of knowledge, with which reading.

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