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    and violent action of the lunatic , { or lunatics , for Matthew speaks of two , ) who , * when they had conceived the thought of gratifying the evil spirits by whom they imagined themselves possessed with the destruction of the swine , would , without much difficulty , drive them off the precipice . If some few were put in morion the whole herd would follow

    /'—Whether the follow ing extract from a provincial paper , ( Newcastle Advertiser , March 7 , 1812 , ) will illustrate the DVs hypothesis I leave your readers to judge .

    ' - Last week two puppies went into a field , belonging to Mr . Hague , of Biddendefl , wherein were twenty breeding ewes , Eighteen of the animals taking fright , were driven into a , pond , where thirteen were drowned , and the other five

    obliged to be slaughtered immediately . Out of the thirteen drowned « wes , twenty dead lambs were jtajken / ' I am , &c . y . f .

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    fetters to a Student : ^ LE TTE R III . My last , my Eugenius , touched on some points which regard your conduct to your tutors : will you ,

    now , favour me with your ear , while I suggest some remarks which jnore immediately relate to yourself ; your dress , your expences jand the management of your time . It was the advice of a Grecian

    prator to a young gentleman : " Be neat and elegant , but not finical in your dress ; there is a degree of magnificence in the former , Jbut of superfluity in the latter / jTf the ibp and the beau be not a . criminal character , it is / certainly ja friyolojus one , and ought to b «

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    avoided by young persons , who would not wish that their habits should indicate an empty mind and a fantastical taste . Were you of such a class in life , as to be indebted to the assistance of private dona * tions or to the munificence of a

    public institution for your support in your studies , I should remonstrate stror . gly against every thing showy and expensive in your attire , as unbecoming your rank , as a vain affectation of vving ranK as a vain aneciation 01 vying

    with young men of fortune ^ as an ineffectual means of throwing a reil over your circumstances , and as disgusting to those who know on what resources you depend . But independent and affluent as

    are your circumstances , it is worthy of your liberality of mind , to study ceconomy and plainness in your dress , both to show a manly superiority to adventitious and splendid ornaments , and to set an

    example of frugality and simplicity to those whose lot in life is beneath your own ; and who might be tempted to rival you in externals , that their inferiority of fortune might be concealed , and less painfully affect themselves .

    The easiness of fortune , which might tempt you to be profuse in your expences on your person , unless you exercise care and self .

    government will , in many other respects , be a snare to you . It will be generous in you here also to keep your expences within such bounds of moderation and

    decorum , that you may not excite envy in the breast of any of your fellow academics , nor tempt them , in order to be on . an apparent equality witk you , to transgress their more limited finances * It , likewise , deserves your consideration , that now is the time for you

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    372 Letters to a Student . — Letter III m

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/28/