Precept and Example, in the Instructive Letters of Eminent Men to Their Younger Friends; With Short Biographs of the Writers - 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.1825 Excerpt: ... private classes of its society. Mr. Nelson may be held up as a model by which all persons in retired life should order themselves, so as to obtain the suffrage of the good and the wise. But he was not content with affording his less reflecting friends a tacit example; the annexed correspondence shows how anxious were' his endeavours, not only in act but in word, to perform that most grateful service to God,--the education of youth in the ways of virtue and piety. To George Hanger, Esq. DEAR COUSIN, Your father having designed to send you for Turkey by the next ships bound to those parts, and intending thereby to breed you to business--that you may be enabled to advance your own fortune in the world, and to assist your brothers, when they shall be fit to receive the advantages of your kindness--I cannot forbear commending that readiness of mind you have shown on this occasion, to comply with that scheme which your father, on mature deliberation, with the advice of your best friends, has formed for the employment of your youth. So near a relation can never want kindness to design that which is best for you; and the advantages of his good sense, and great experience, enable him to judge right in this matter. So that, being governed by the dictates of so kind and wise a father, you steer by a much surer compass than by following the suggestions of your own thoughts, which must want due ripeness in that path of life you now tread. I look upon this first step of your conduct to be a happy presage of your future wisdom and steadiness, and a good omen that your voyage of life will be prosperous and successful; for the miscarriage of many a youth has been owing to his own wilfulness and obstinacy, refusing the advice and guidance of his best friends when he stood mo...
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