Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1835. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. The following work has been prepared with an unusual degree of care and attention. The plan pursued is this:-- 1. To draw the materials from classical authorities. 2. To present such practical views concerning the developement of character, intellectual and moral, as are suited to the situation of young gentlemen who are ambitious to become useful and respectable members of society. 3. To illustrate these practical views not only by means of such narratives as present general truths under the form of fiction, but also by examples drawn from real life, calculated to excite the emulation of every ingenuous and spirited young man. 4. To point out not only the means of eminence and worldly distinction, but the sources of true rational enjoyment--the means of being a happy as well as a respectable man. 5. To preserve a high moral tone throughout every part of the work. 6. To render the style unexceptionable; inasmuch as the book is designed to be read at that period when the reader's own taste and style of composition are forming their decisive character. Such is the design of the Young Gentleman's Library. The public will pronounce how near an approximation the author has made to its fulfilment. To its decision, with the profoundest deference, he now submits his work. YOUNG GENTLEMAN'S LIBRARY. THE UTILITY OF KNOWLEDGE. As the power of acquiring knowledge is to be ascribed to reason, so the attainment of it mightily strengthens and improves it, and thereby enables it to enrich itself with farther acquisitions. Knowledge in general expands the mind, exalts the faculties, refines the taste of pleasure, and opens innumerable sources of intellectual enjoyment. By means of it, we become less dependent for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites, the gross plea...
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