Letters Addressed to a Young Man, on His First Entrance Into Life; And Adapted to the Peculiar Circumstances of the Present Times - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801. Excerpt: ... ages which k purely accidental,and proceeding from causes which we could not direct; outlet us rather ask, has a long period of tranquillity, opulence, and diffused information, been properly improved? I do not mean in a political, but in a moral light; and I wish every one to answer for themselves, not for their neighbours. Tranquillity is not given to be wasted in indolence or dissipation. Opulence claims from its-possessors more than mere selfish elegance. If we are now ignorant of the duties and principles of the religion which we prosess, we caranot accuse our blind guides, or lay the blame on a crafty hierarchy who profit by our credulity. And if we will rest contented with that imitation of knowledge, which has all the desects without the simplicity of ignorance; we scorn truth in its meridian meridian splendor, while our progenitors worshipped its early dawn. But let me not adopt the indiscriminating declamation which I ever condemn. The present age is not marked by such perverseness; and I trust that the risings generation will escape the snare which is artsully laid to entrap their premature judgments, and to make them partisans of anarchy before they can understand the blessings which they renounce. With the ardent wish that you, my dear child, may preserve the ingenuousness, candour, and discretion, which makes the possessor both respectable and happy, I conclude, &c. LETTER IVi' MY DEAR SON, You must not charge me with supercilious contempt of my cotemporaries, or overweening confidence in my own talents and judgment, if I take every opportunity of expressing my hatred of those writers, who dress up the tenets of the new school of morals in every disguise which the imagination can conceive, in hopes that, in some form or other, they may impos...
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