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    to form all good habits : of which ^ economy is a very important one , both for the credit and comfort of life ; nay , it liei at the foundation of all true generosity . The spendthrift can never be liberal what is thrown away on folly , mu&t be denied to benevolence .

    Besides , it is not easy to say how you can be expensive , without losing your inclination for study and mis-spending your time . For if you be extravagant , it must be supposed it will be in your

    recreations and amusements ; by indulging in them too frequently and pursuirfg them too far , they will at once beguile you of your money , and rob you of your time . The loss of your money may be

    retrieved by better ( rugatity , or the full possession of your fortune may enable you to recover it ; but the loss of your time is irrecoverable . When that is gone there is no recalling it . Of all

    things it becomes you to be parsimonious of your time . The loss of time involves in it the loss of those valuable opportunities of mental improvement , which you now enjoy , and will , hereafter , wish in vain to recover . Your

    present time is accompanied with a vigour of powers , with an activity of mind , that future years will riot know . The period of academical life is passing on , and will be soon gone : while it

    lasts it is really not your own ; you are accountable for your improvement of it to your friends , to mankind and to God . The providence of God has favoured you

    With it : your friends have entrusted it to ybur fidelity , to be employed 1 n application to study : and mankind expect from you the improvement of it . It is ingrati .

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    tude to God , it is injustice to the world and to your friends to rieg . lect it , and to waste it in idleness and folly . You may flatter yourself , that there are many year * before you , in riper life , for the

    pursuit of science and knowledge = but believe me , it is a delusive hope . Future life will bring with it so many engagements and cares , that it will not leave you inclination or leisure to recover the lost

    years of academic life . And could you be sure of commanding time hereafter , would you be laying the foundation , when you ought to be raising the building ?

    In this instance of conduct , and in forming your general manners , and character , much , very much , my friend , will depend on the choice of your company . It is to be wished , that you would care .

    fully read what Dean Bolton has said on the subject . You find yourself surrounded by an agreeable circle of jroung men , some of them of rank and fortune , about your own age , engaged in the same course of studies and destined to

    appear in some of the most respectable spheres of life . Many endearing circumstances tend to unite you together : and you , probably , feel your own heart

    ready to unbosom itself to every one with ingenuous affection and unsuspecting confidence . It is to be recommended to you to behave towards all with urbanity and politeness . But a little reflection

    will convince you , tbat in a mixed circle , every one cannot be equally entitled to esteem , much less to attachment and confidence . You cannot immediately discriminate between them , nor , at a first interview , appreciate their respective merits . Allow me , then , to urge

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    Letters to # Student . —Letter Iff . 373

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/29/