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Excerpt from Poems on Several Occasions
Young men, who are brought up in public schools, are early ushered into life (except some few whose natural conceit is of a character too stupid to be removed by instruc tion, or too strong to be subdued by mortification) are seldom liable to this misfortune. Their natural feelings become suba jected to the usages of society, and being hourly made sensi bleof their deficiencies by inevitable comparison, the true va lue of their character cannot be concealed from themselves. This, perhaps, is one of the strongest considerations in favoi' of a public education. With respect to his intellectual characte It is certain that his progress in letters, and in the sciences, was by no means inconsiderable. His mind was naturall inquisitive, and his curiositywas constantly excursive, so t at his acquirements were always on the increase. I have seen some short Latin poems of his, which were at first intended to have had a place in this collection, and which, though they did not ap pear sufficiently finished for publication, exhibit a variety of expression, and an acquaintance with classic phraseology, be yond what could have been expected from his limited means of stu Like the rest of his compositions, they are all ci' ther o the tender or elegiac'cast. His mathematical know-s ledge was of a very respectable degree, and his general ac quaintance with books, appears to have been very extensive. Since the period when theological studies became the princie pal object of his attention, as they were of his duty, he seems to have applied himself to that department of learning with uncommon assiduity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
