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commencing with an attendance en public lecture ^ will ex tend its influence to the whole management of time and studies . Besides , a young man cannot frequently and on slight pretences , absent
himself from lecture without inducing a suspicion of secret disrespect to the professor , or of idleness and of indifference- to his owh progress in knowledge . It
disgraces the student himself and undermines the authority of the tutor . It is a practice disreputable and mischievous ; where it is
connived at , science and knowledge can never advance . Ignominy , and , as the last remedy , expulsion , and not a pecuniary mulct , should be the punishment of it * With on 6 of your tutors , with him who provides the commons , j ^ our connection reaches beyond the lecture room ; and draws after
it an obligation , with respect to your deportment in his house and at his table . It is not enough that , in this case , you behave with general respect ; the comfort of a
tutor and the harmony of the family are much affected by an easi . ness of disposition , with regard to the accommodations of the house , and the articles of the table . A
fastidious taste , on these points , is beneath the young philosopher , much more the young divine . It cannot be always gratified , and must expose those who indulge it to perpetual uneasiness . Should things be not perfectly agreeable , it may be of use in future life , to have been inured to some instan
ces of self denial , and to have preserved a good temper under circumstances which ruffle some minds . You will , my friend , make allowances , for the difficulties attendant on the arrangements of a large family , and for the accidents to which , either through the care *
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On Matt . xvr . i-8 . The Gates of * HeH $ 0 i * de % ) shall not prevail against if * u Hades , here translated , Hell , is generally used to signify the invisible mansion © f departed spirits , good or bad . But the ancient heathens did not think , that all departed souls were in Hades ; three sorts of the dead were thought to be kept out of that mansion , viz , the Insepulti ^ the < dori ) and . the Biceotkanati . the souls of them that
were after bufied , till their funeral rites were performed ; the souls of such as died an untimely death , until the time that their natural death should come ; and the souls of such as died a violent death for
their crimes , creditftm est insepultos , non ante ad inferos redigi , quam justa perceperint , Tertullian de Anima , q . 56 . Qtt re , Whether this might notbe one reason for inserting in the ancient Creed , " after th £ article of our Saviour ^ burial , that of his
descent into Hell , or Hades ; to signify to the heathens , who had the aforesaid apprehensions , that though our Lord died a violent death , yet he descended or passed into Wades , and was not excluded thence , because he did . not die" for any offence of his own . " ¦
Dr . Cusoa ' s Sermon , at the ordination of Mr . Joha Holland , jun . at Chesterfield , in Derbyshire , August -tttoivntift&ti » . Note .
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318 Letters to a Student . —Letter II .
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les&rjess or perverseness of servants , tB <^ f tidt > le is liable * Your residence is but of a transient nature ; and in a house , in which you are not to take up a long abode , you may with more reason be expected to exercise so much self-command and benevolence as , in little things , to bear and forbear . 1 am , Your , &c .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/38/
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